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CONTENTS

VOLUME 8, NUMBER 10, OCTOBER 1992

FEATURES

Morphing Madness

By Mark Swain 26

Image-morphing tips and tricks, plus a look
at three brand-new image-processing pro-
grams to help you do the job.

Blueprint for Successful Video

By Patric Hcdlund 32

Here's how to assemble a lop-notch Ami-
ga-based video-production studio that
rivals expensive professional setups.

ARTICLES

Digital Test Tube By John lovaw . 3 9

Cellular automation programs otter fasci-
nating ways to create all kinds of artificial
life forms with your Amiga.

Sneak Prei iew!

Small Talk: The New Amiga

600 REVEALED By Doug Barney ... 4 4

Commodore's new low-end Amiga 600 is
finally ready to mil in the US. Check out
the details of this compacl little machine.

COLUMNS

Chief Concerns By Doug Barney ... 6

Phillip Robinson's now infamous column lias
drawn our editor's full attention.

Video Suite By Joel Tessler 48

With new waveform monitor/ vectorscope

combinations, you can now do inexpensive
pro-quality signal monitoring.

Accent on Graphics

By Joel Hagen 52

With some simple image-processing tech-
niques, you can create backgrounds for
almost any kind of presentation — video,
mulimedia or print.

DEPARTMENTS

Overscan 8

Amiga news and new products, plus the
latest PD/shareware.

Help Key

Lou took a break this month to visit
shows, but he'll be back in November.

An intermediate stage in the morpk of a woman
into a Uopartl. See the coner story, "Morphing
Madness" on ji, 26.

The Last Word 104

The readers have their day and say.

REVIEWS

A- Max II Plus (ReadySoft) (6

You'll have two computers in one with
this System 7 .0-compatible Mac emulator.

Impact Vision-24

(Great Valley Products) 18

This 24-bit card makes multimedia a snap.

PERSONAL TBC II (Digital Processing
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TBCARD (I. DEN Videotronics) 20

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MlGRAPH OCR 1.1 IB (Migraph) . . 50"
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SCRIPTCEN (Michael Greenstein),

TRexx Professional (KludgeCode

Software), TOASTM ASTER, (Byrd's Eye

Software) and TOASTER TOOLKIT

(The Byte Factory) 58

Automate vour Video [baster scripts
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TRANSPORTER (Amazing Computers) . 5 8
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Three audio- and visual-effects programs.

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(Digital Expressions) b 2

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GAMES

CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson 74

Our tipster extraordinaire takes you Out

of This World.

Global Effect (Millennium/

Electronic Arts) 74

Save, create, or rule your own world.

Guy Spy and the Crystals of
Armageddon (Ready-Soft) 78

Cartoon-quality animations, archvillains,
and superagents.

GODS (Konami) 82

The latest shoot-'em-up from the
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Napoleon I: The Campaigns

1805-1814 (RAW Entertainment) ... 82

Lead the Grand Armee into battle.

Short Takes 82

Capsule reviews of recent Amiga games.
This month: The Dark Queen of Krynn,
Pools of Darkness, Gateway to the Sav-
age frontier, and Shadow Sorcerer
(Strategic Simulations): Monkey Island
II: LeCh tick's Revenge (LucasArts
Games); A-10 Tank Killer 1.5 (Dynamix);
and Return of the Living Text Adventure
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The Next Round 88

Announcements of Amiga games thai
will soon hit the shelves.

AW Product Information. . 9 8

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consult our all-in-one "Manufacturers'/

Distributors' Addresses" list.

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CHIEF CONCERNS

Mr. Robinson should learn to qualify his bald statements
with "It is my opinion ..."

A ROAR BEGAN almost immediately
after the article ran in the July 12th
edition of the San Jose Mercury News, a
prestigious Silicon Valley newspaper. It
seems that the usually dull computer
columnist Phillip Robinson took it
upon himself to declare the Amiga a
dead machine.

In fact, the first sentence of the
column reads "The Amiga is dead."
This gave West Coast Amiga users
conniptions, and sent litem raving to
their keyboards, where they really let it
fly on-line.

The syndicated column has since
run in newspapers across the country,
prompting a flood of calls to Amiga-
World asking if Commodore had pulled
the plug on the Amiga. The answer is a
resounding Not!

Columnists have an obligation to
express opinions honestly, and Mr.
Robinson had every right given to us in
this great nation to write that column.
The best columns are a bit pointed,
and those that provoke are particularly
valuable because they make us think.

If Robinson wanted us to think, he
succeeded. He apparently received
more responses from this column than
from any he has written in the past
eight years. I guess all those people
with dead machines just wanted to
thank him lor letting them know.

For those who are personally upset
with Mr. Robinson, that's all well and
good. But to those that have reportedly
threatened die man, you'd best gel a
healthier altitude, or perhaps a life.

While I'll defend to the death Mr,
Robinson's right to publish his opinion,
I do think that his column was mislead-
ing and damaging. By stating thai the
Amiga is dead, he led many to believe
thai the computer was no longer being
produced, sold, marketed, or support-
ed. We received many phone calls from
people worried that the Amiga had
been yanked.

The problem is thai Robinson did
seem to state as fact what was merely

opinion. It was this lack of care I hat got
me steamed.

Shortly after the article appeared, I
got a call from a guy named Roy. Roy
was pretty upset. The company he
works for uses Amigas, and the Big
Cheese was giving Rov a big heel over
buying a new A3000. Roy's boss had
read the article and apparently be-
lieved it. It lakes a lot of convincing to
turn these beliefs around.

Commodore Hot

Commodore also fell the heal from
Robinson's blasts, and thai, I'd say, is a
good thing. The firm cranked out a
three-page reply outlining its argu-
ments, and posied it on the nets.

The guvs from the big C pointed out
that we are up to about three million
machines installed worldwide, that new
machines are on the wav (beyond the
600), that there are about 1000 Amiga
dealers in the US, and that Digital
Equipment Corp. is an Amiga reseller.
They then described I he firm's market-
ing efforts. Commodore has also begun
reaching out to computer journalists,
including Robinson, to explain the key
markets for the Amiga. They pointed
out that Amiga fans are more than
welcome to contact Mr. Robinson, or
write to newspapers that have run the
column. Many already have.

One of the more eloquent responses
was a letter published in the Boston
Globe from Mary Ryan, a director of
I he Boston Computer Society. After the
Globe ran the column, Ryan was be-
sieged with calls asking il Commodore
was pulling the Amiga. She tactfully
disagreed with the column and gave
many examples of the Amiga's use in
prominent places, including Fenway
Park (home of the almost always almost
great Boston Red Sox), the Holiday
Inn, and just about every cable station
known to mankind.

Bottom Line

If you've read the column, you know

thai Robinson knows a lot about the
Amiga. He mentions our GUI, multi-
tasking, custom chips, color graphics,
stereo sound, and video compatibility.
What he failed to realize is that those
capabilities have yet to be matched.

What he and countless others also do
not understand is that the Amiga is a
vertical-market machine. It no longer
competes with PCs and Macs, but in-
stead takes on workstations from Sili-
con Graphics, NeXTj and Sun.

Calling the Amiga dead is like call-
ing the Ferrari dead ]ust because it's
outsold in sheer numbers by Yugo.
They are different machines, and need
to be judged in different ways. Would
Robinson have us all drive \ueos?

Brouhaha Update

Right before our presstime,
Robinson issued a follow-up piece in
which he apologized for his "Amiga
is dead" statement. His column
brought him the largest response of
any column he's ever written. He
defended his original conclusions,
however, that the Amiga is a goner
as far as competing against the Mac
or PC, except in desktop video and
multimedia.

And Amiga owners did respond —
with a vengeance. The reaction,
according to Robinson, was mixed.
"Many are unhappy with
Commodore,. .many are unhappy
with me."

Welcome to the neighborhood,
Phil.

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Video Sources

Scores of Amiga owners find users'
groups a tremendous resource. But
where do professional videographers
and artists turn for help with their spe-
cific requirements? To the Amiga Video-
Graphics Guild (AVG).

Although AVG had its start in a spe-
cial-interest meeting of California's San
Fernando Valley Users' Group, the guild
has evolved into a different animal. "We
are professionals helping professionals,"
states Geoffrey Williams, guild director.
"We are definitely oriented to video and
graphics. That's all we do. Almost every-
one in the group is a working profession-
al or wants to be. We help make the tran-
sition from amateur to professional. We
help make contacts."

Willi the guild's assistance, many mem-
bers have found work with software devel-
opers and video producers. AVG's mem-
ber-referral service keeps resumes on file
and matches members with employers.

According to Assistant Director Steven
Blai/.e, AVG is a boon lor would-be devel-

opers — especially those with little initial
capital who depend on word of mouth.

Help Mates

The organization's quarterly publication.
Mentor, features product reviews, tutorials,
advice, and news, and ii includes a disk
packed with images and tools. In addi-
tion, members can ask questions and get
timely answers through several forums.
This summer, AVG launched an open-fo-
rum BBS that provides help in specific
categories. One section, for example, fo-
cuses on Imagine. The BBS has been so
successful that the guild now needs some-
one to donate a gigabyte drive to contain
the member-provided data.

Other benefits include monthly hot-
news sheets, disk and video libraries, a
help hot-line, a national outreach net-
work, and more. Local members and the
public can take advantage of monthly
meetings that feature presentations by
such Amiga notables as Brad Schenck,
Rick Probst and Joe Conti. According to

Williams, guild membership is split

equally between locals and professionals
elsewhere in the country.

You Deserve a Promotion!

AVG actively promotes the Amiga by sup-
porting the artists and programmers. Fur-
ther, members lake the machine into
classrooms, sponsoring seminars for fac-
ulty members. AVG managed to gain the
Amiga's adiiiiiumce to the L'niversiiy of
California/Santa Barbara, California Insii-
tute of the Arts, and the Brooks Institute.
"The Amiga is absolutely the best plat-
form for video. We look at new technol-
ogy to find the best way to get the work
done," said Williams. 'ITie Amiga's desk-
top-video ability is, "a strong niche, grow-
ing all i he lime," he explained. And guild
members plan to continue capitalizing
on it. Ifyou are interested in joining, con-
tact the AVG at 1833 Verdugo Vista Dr.,
Glcndale, CA 91208, 818/240-9845. Or,
tap into the BBS at 818/240-4873.

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To the Letter

Kara Computer Graphics' new font sets (S99
each) comprise antialiased 16-million color
ChromaFonts for use with NewTek's Video
Toaster CG. The packages were designed to ad-
dress current limitations of the Toaster in dealing
with ChromaFonts. The included installation pro-
gram lets you install the fonts on your hard drive
and use them in compressed mode to save up
to 50% of the usual storage space.

Toaster Fonts 3, a six-disk set, offers four distinc-
tive cap styles in two sizes each (see photo), with
outline, drop, and cast shadows. Each includes the
full character set, plus special characters. Toaster
Fonts 4 (five disks) provides four shiny script and
cursive faces: a chiseled Roman script in gold and
metal, a casual Brushed script, and a Calligraphic
face. Each style comes in two sizes and includes the
full set or upper- and lowercase letters, numerals,
and special characters. |RS# 124.)

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Pop Arts promises Video Toaster users a treat
with three 3-D font volumes as well as a collec-
tion of textures (S39.95 each) for use with both
the originaland 2.0 versions of LightWave 3D.
Each font set contains upper- and lowercase
characters, along with numbers and symbols.

Do you want the whole spread? If you buy three
volumes, Pop Arts will throw the fourth in for
free. (RS# 125.]

Integrated Graphic Media, maker of several
existing NewTek fonts, now offers four packages
(S89.95 each) on its own. Foreign 1 includes all
the characters necessary to represent the Alba-
nian, French, German, Hawaiian, Italian, Por-
tuguese, Spanish, and Swedish alphabets in
their entirety. Your choices don't end with lan-
guages, however; you also get a choice of type
styles (Foreign Thin and Foreign News) and five
sizes Ifrom 24 to 54). The Serif 1 package in-
cludes Benji, Quadra, and Italian faces in normal
and bold styles and sizes 14 to 54. Integrated's
Decorative 1 package gives you a quintet of
styles in as many sizes, and the Flags 1 collec-
tion includes full-color flags from 170 nations, in
sizes 36 and 72. (RS# 126.) I

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The Best Just Keeps Getting Better

ProWrite is the

best selling word
processor for die
Amiga®, and for
good reason.
High perfor-
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and enhancements. And now a new
low price!

New Features

ProWrite 3.3 gives you more power
than ever before. More powerful
graphic handling, including automatic
text-wrap. Print preview. Password
protection for your documents. The
ability to name and find pictures in
long documents. Full clipboard sup-
port, for seamless exchange of text and
pictures with other programs. And
HotLltlHS »™ support, giving you
total integration of ProWrite with
other HotLinks-capable programs!

Proven Performance

Combine this with ProWrite's already
formidable feature set, and you have
the most powerful word processor for
the Amiga. Features like multiple
fonts and pictures. A spelling checker
with over 100,000 dictionary words. A
thesaurus with over 300,000 cross-ref-
erences. Outline font support. Jaggie-
free printing, for high-quality printing
on dot-matrix printers. PostScript
printing. Macros and AREXX support
tor power users. Mail merge, for form
letters. And multiple columns, includ-
ing side-by-side columns for writing
audio/video scripts — a ProWrite
exclusive! And the list roes on!

And of course, ProWrite 3.3 retains
the speed and ease-of-use that has
made it famous with thousands of
Amiga users world-wide.

New Low Price!

Even with all this [lower, ProWrite is
more affordable than ever before —
because ProWrite is available now for
only $99.95! So you no longer have a
reason not to treat yourself to the best!

See for yourself what makes ProWrite

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Features

• "What you see is what you get" display.

• Multiple fonts, sizes, styles, and colors.

• Outline font support.

• Insert IFF and HAM pictures in your

documents.

* Automatically wrap it--xt around pictures.

* A'UiIliph- columns, with ^miking or side-hy-
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Spelling checker with 100,000 word

dictionary.

Thesaurus with 300,000 cross-references.

Full system clipboard support.

I loiLiiiks'FM support

Undo and Redo command.

Mail merge.

AREXX port.

Macros, when used with AREXX.

Name and search for pictures in a document.

Speaking capability, to read back document
contents,

Separate odd and even page headers and

footers.

Paragraph sorting,

Automatic page numbering, with five
different page number styles.

Insert current date and time, with five
different date formats and two time formats.

Word count and readability level calculation.

Up to 10 documents open at the same rime.

Document password protection.

User-set document comments.

Horizontal and/or vertical document rulers,
for precise positioning.

Custom page sizes.

Print preview.

PostScript printing, in black & white or

color.

I Ugh quality graphics printing for jaggie-frec

output.

Print MLQ text and graphics at the same
time.

Complete printer control, including sideways
printing and 4,096 color printing.

Automatic rimed save*; and backups.

Import and export Professional Page test
files.

Comprehensive kcybriard commands.

Easy to use "3-D" user interface look.

Fully customizable.

Full support for Kiekstart 2.0.

Requires Kjekssart 1.2 or later, one megabyte
oi memory, and two disk drives.

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Allen Avionics' new TDL488-T Video
Delay Line ($325) promises to let you
easily time all video signals to that of the
Toaster. In addition to an internal 360-
nanosecond insertion fixed delay, the
unit provides a 127-nanosecond switch
variable delay — made up of 1 , 2, 4, 8, I 6,
32, and 64 delay steps, for a total of 487
nanoseconds. A ± 1 -nanosecond line
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Translator, another video product from
the same company, is a hardware solu-
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automatically transform EGA, VGA,
SVGA or Macintosh signals into true
broadcast-quality NTSC or PAL signals
in composite component and Y/C for-
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ON-LINE

Nothing gels vour Amiga
into the 1990s like a 68040
processor. If you've got Mo-
torola's answer to computer
steroids plugged into your
Amiga, vou should know ol
the several '040 utilities avail-
able on the nets. To make life
easier for speedsters, I
rounded up all the '040 opti-
mizers 1 could find. These are
not necessarily compatible
with every accelerator card,
but should get you started.

If vou're using a Progressive
Peripherals 68040 board, be
sure to get fastrom04Q.lzh, a
FastROM Memory-Manage-
ment Unit program for both
the A2000 and A3000 from
BIX's Amiga area. The more
technically-minded may want
arp040fix.lzh, a 2K fix for Aip
problems induced by any
'040, regardless of the brand.

GEnie users have some
exclusive 68040-speciiic files
to choose from. Amiga Li-
bran' 1 1 contains two must-
have liles for Progressive Pe-
ripheral's 68040:" file 1 6450
(NEWTROG040.LHA) and
file 16493 (NEW040.LZH).
Downloading these files will
get vou offerings from Pro-
gressive updated as of July.
(Progressive may have made
other postings by the time
you read this.)

By Tim Walsh

On GEnie, be sure to get
file number 16071 from Li-
brary 4 in the Amiga area.
This' is SET040V115.LHA—
Nic Wilson's popular Set040
utility in its 1.15 version.
Users of NewTek's Toaster
should check out Library 1 1
for file 16491 (TOAST040-
.LZH), a utility for Progressive
'040-equipped Toaster users.

On CompuServe, I found
only one such file: 040ROM-
.LZH in AmigaTech Library
11. It is basically the same
program as fastrom040.1zh
on BIX.

CPUSE IXZH, mentioned
in last month's column, is
one of the lew accelerator
utilities you'll find on Portal.
For measuring 68040 per-
formance, there are also sev-
eral versions of I.aMonte
[Loop's AIBB (Amiga Intu-
ition Based Benchmarks) for
the picking.

While Portal is short of
'040 utilities at this writing, I
wouldn't be surprised if the
aggressive Porta! sysops will
have posted most of the
68040 files listed above by
the time you read this. But
the big news on Portal isn't
files, it's Internet.

Casting a Wider Net

Portal has rewritten the tele-

communication game rules
with the introduction of a va-
riety of Internet Services.
The significance of this S5-
per-month option is that you
can now use Portal to down-
load files from popular
archive sites all over (he
world.

Internet's more significant
features include FTP (File
Transfer Protocol), which is
used to transfer files over the
Internet, and IRC (Internet
Relay Chat), which allows
vou to communicate with up
to 700 users worldwide sans
additional charges.

Despite the system's in-
herent simplicity, the ter-
minology used throughout
Internet is foreign to the
casual computer user. Ref-
erences to backbones, cam-
pus network liaisons and
RFCs (Request for Com-
ments), may seem meaning-
less to even seasoned tele-
communication users. Re-
alizing that this problem ex-
ists, Portal has responded
with an entire area called
"FIELP for Internet Services"
within the Internet area. You
can use it to get assistance
with any area that you cannot
decipher.

Within Internet, there's
also Telnet. One example

Portal gives of Telnet's versa-
tility is the ability get the dai-
ly lunch menu from a univer-
sity 7 in Colorado for no extra
telephone charges. Telnet
also lets you connect to mul-
tiuser games, databases, and
information systems.

If you're a Portal user in-
terested in Internet, just
type "GO INTERNET" at
anv command prompt. As
an interesting side note,
users with an account on an
Internet-connected comput-
er will find detailed com-
mands to access Portal free
of charge.

Finally, the Amiga area's
File Libraries/New Uploads
area lists File number 39,
which is file TCP-IP.LHA.
This file describes the Inter-
net networking protocols
(TCP/IP) in great detail. Por-
tal has gone a long way in
dispelling the myth that the
nets are staid, sluggish insti-
tutions where changes and
improvements occur onlv
occasionally, and then slowly.
Expect to see the other nets
follow suit.

BIX

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617/354-4137

CompuServe

614/457-0802
800/848-8199

GEnie
800/638-9636

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with Digital Processing Systems" new DPS
RC-2000 multichannel remote control.
With a single remote, you can control up
to eight DPS TBCs (cards or rackmouut

units) and one waveform/vectorscope.
Yon get dedicated TBC and V-Scopc
Sanction kevs, pins ten nonvolatile set-up
memories lor each TBC channel, and

you get the advantage oi individual dig-
ital shaft encoders for easy adjustment o('
all proc-amp and color-balance func-
tions. (RS# 122.)

External Video

Maybe you can't fit a Video Toaster into the high-performance A30Q0, but that doesn't mean you
cannot use the two devices together. Heifner Communications' new Toaster Cozzy (S790 plus ship-
ping) is a video slot in a box. It holds a Toaster, powers it (with a 65-watt regulated power supply
providing a slaved instant-on feature), and connects it to the Amiga — without voiding warranties on
either the board or the CPU. The Toaster Cozzy provides a neat video-slot solution for ABOOs as well,
and for A2000s with occupied video slots.

The unit provides a built-in blackbursl generator for video sync with five BNC outputs, and later
this year, the Toaster Cozzy will accommodate not one, but two video boards via an upgrade. Heifner
promises to upgrade its video cable in the future to maintain compatibility with advanced incarnations
of the Amiga. (RS# 123.)

Power Parts

Need a customizable graphics-process-

ing/display device? Then take a look at
Digital Micronics new Vivid 24. The
board's modular approach lets von add
features and power according to your
needs. In its standard configuration
($2995), Vivid 24 includes one 4MB
Video Memorv Module (VMM), provid-
ing 24-bir color display in noninterlaced
resolutions of up to I024x7li8. You can
increase your display to 20-18x20 IS in in-
terlaced mode, however, bv adding I hire
more VMMs ($729 each). Add the
Broadcast Quality Digital Video Encoder
module ($729), and you'll be able to re-
tain the quality of super hi-res graphics
while moving them to videotape.

Designed to work with the Encoder
module, the Video Effects Generator
(S385) provides an input for two video
sources and allows for special effects
and switching on a pixel-by-pixel basis
between the sources and Vivid 2-1 com-
puter graphics.

Graphics math coprocessor upgrades
come in both single (S585) and double
($1449) varieties. Each single coproces-
sor adds 40 Million floating Point Oper-
ations Per Second (MEl.OPS) and lets
vou render 2."i.0lK) shaded polvgous pel
second; not surprisingly, the double co-

processor duplicates those results. With
a double and two singles, Vivid 24
promises to achieve a total of 160
M PLOPS and generate 100,000 shaded
polygons per second!

You can display a super hi-res Work-
bench screen via Vivid 24, and the board
claims complete compatibility with all
Amiga applications. To make those ap-
plications run fast, the board comes with
4MB of program memory. To increase
speeds even more, yon can add another
4MB program memorv module (S385).

The board is ASOOO'and A3000 com-
patible, and comes with loads of software,
including DMI Paint, a 24-bit paint pack-
age with all the standard tools in DMI su-
per resolutions. The DMI Render soft-
ware lets you import models and frames
from other industry-standard 3-D pro-
grams and render in "near real-time" us-
ing either Gourad or Phong shading.
And for configuring and controlling
Vivid 2-l's programmable resolution out-
put, DMI Tweek is the answer.

According to DMI, Vivid 24's rendering
and image-processing power and super
hi-res 24 -bit displays — not available on
any other platform at any price — will be
a boon for 3-D rendering, real-time sim-
ulation, and medical imaging. (RS# 127.)

'Sno Storm

Feeling snowed under by slow processing and RAM limitations? Preferred Technologies' new Blizzard
Board promises to shovel you out with performance increases of 200%, The low-cost unit installs in
the 68000 socket of the A500, A2000, and, with a special adapter, the A1000. Its 14-MHz 68000 processor
doubles the clock rate of your CPU and memory access, but the board lets you switch back to 7-MHz
mode to accommodate finicky software. A special "shadow mode" lets you run AmigaDOS from an op-
tional 512K bank of dynamic memory for bener overall performance. In addition, you can add 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, or 8 megabytes of RAM via inexpensive DIP memory chips. Software that comes with the board
controls many of its features and includes a memory-testing program. A five-year warranty rounds out
the board's offerings. [RS# 129.)

i /; R 11 E A R I)

Would you like your Amiga-gener-
ated artwork to end up in the homes
of over one million people? Then
consider submitting music, graphics
stills, animations, and videos to Wil-
low Mixed Media, producers of Ami-
ga artists on the Air, a cable-television
series about Amiga art. Broadcast
throughout the L'S and Canada, the
program is now in its second year and
recently became a finalist in the
Hometown USA Video Festival,

You can submit work on disk in IFF
or \\ I M-3 formats, or on i-int 1;
tape (Hi8 and VHS are also accept-
able). For a program listing and a ros-
ter of stations that cany the series,
send a self-addressed, stamped enve-
lope to: Willow Mixed Media. PC) Box
194, Glenford, NY 12433. You can
call or fax them at 914/657-2914. If
vou don't lind vour local cable chan-
nel on the list, contact Willow for in-
formation on how to arrange show-
ings. Past programs are available on
VF1S tape.

Spectral Lines

So you want the whole spectrum of 24-bit,
real-time video framegrahbing? Preferred Tech-
nologies gives it to you. Spectrum, its new high-
definition video device, grabs an image in frame
mode in 730th of a second or in field mode in
Veoth of a second, and digitizes using a fufl
palette of 1 6 million colors. Under software con-
trol, you can freeze images, hold them in the
unit's built-in framebuffer in 768x480 NTSC for-
mat, and then view them on a standard compos-
ite monitor.

Image data transferred through the parallel
port to tho Amiga is digitized, while the original
image remains in the framebuffer. The hardware
provides two 8NC connectors for composite
video in and out, the parallel data port, a connec-
tor for an external power supply, and a comple-
ment of LED status lights to tell you at a glance
the current mode of operation.

Full hardware control is provided by a single
program that features plenty of pull-down menus
and hot keys. Spectrum boasts support for many
independent programs that you can run directly i

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► Edit sounds quickly in real time.
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sounds backward, alter wave forms,
cut and paste sound segments, create
loops, eliminate pops and scratches.

► Compose easily using the DSS
4-track sequencer and your Amiga or
MIDI keyboard. Draw from up to 31
instruments at a time, in up to four
octaves with 8 different variable
effects. Mix and modify sounds in
real time as you compose, through
direct interface with the sound editor.

DSS Stretches the outer limits of 8-bit
sound

• Create your own 4-track, self-play-
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• Make soundtracks for home video,
animation or visual presentations
complete with voice-over, sound
effects and music.

• Analyze voice patterns and stereo
separation.

• Analyze graphic
equalization of
real-time sound.

• Remove "pops" from
old phonograph recordings.

• Create custom instruments and
sound effects by collecting and/or
modifying pre-recorded instruments,
voice, or sounds from any source, and
use them in your own compositions.

• Save your sound and music to disk
or send it out via modem for replay on
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V Multi-tasking operation.

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V Comprehensive tutorial manual
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V Intuition-based graphic interface
makes operation easy.

V MIDI-in capability.

«/ Direct interface between
sequencer and editor.

V Hold 31 sound samples in memory
at once — all shown on screen so they
are easy to manipulate.

V Effects and processing capabilities
include echo, mix, filter, re-sample,
sound data inversion, playing sounds
backwards, loops, fade-in/fade-out
and more.

/ Manipulate sound samples
in real time, as you listen.

/ Create sampled instruments
with 1, 3 and 5 octaves.

V HIFI recording for highest quality
playback.

V Controls for faster/slower playback
and filtering high frequencies during

playback.

V Load and save samples, songs and
instruments in multiple formats.

/ Multiple
effects for
each note.

V Stereo and
monophonic

operation. Also convert mono to

stereo or separate stereo.

V Auto-playing music modules.

V Real-time oscilloscope and
spectrum analysis.

»/ Real-time reverberation.

V Graphic editing of wave forms
through easy-to-use functions,
including zoom in/out and precision
controls for position, frequency and
amplitude.

i/ Draw sound waves freehand using

the mouse.

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from the CLI, so you need not create complex
ARexx ports. The software can also compensate
for a lack of phase lock in the source video via
its special VCR mode, which computes each
scan line. (RS# 129.)

OVERHEARD

Now that summer's over, it's time
to doff your shorts — and send diem
to Video Shorts, the only nationwide
video competition devoted solely to
vignettes. This year's competition
features a special Computer Anima-
tion category in addition to its gener-
al category. Video Shorts accepts en-
tries of up to six minutes in length on
/i-inch l'-maiic or SP, VHS, S-VHS.
8mm, and Mi-8 formats in NTSC
standard. You may enter up to three
pieces; entry fees are S20 per piece
and $ 1 for each additional entry on
the same cassette. Postmark deadline
is February 1, 1993,

The competition promises a mini-
mum of ten winning entries, each of
which, will win its creator $100 cash
and he mastered to a 1-inch tape for
touring and archival purposes. For in-
formation and entry forms write:
Video Shorts, PO Box '20369, Seattle,
WA 98102, or phone 206/325-8449.

The International Television Asso-
ciation is not choosy about the length
of productions submitted to its 25th
annual Video festival. The association
docs specify, however, that they must
be created by video pros outside the
broadcasting field. You can submit en-
tries designed for training, student
productions, public service, and six
other categories. Get an entry kit
from ITVA, 631 1 O'Connor Rd.,' LB-
51, Irving, TX 75039, 214/869-1112
(fax: 214/869-2980). Entry deadline is
November 16.

Many Tongues

How can you go about getting your Amiga —
and yourself — to speak Russian, Korean, and En-
glish? With Fairbrothers' Audio Gallery series of
"talking picture dictionaries." Each volume of this
series employs computer graphics and digitized
speech and provides an iconized table of contents
and a gadget-scrollable on-line dictionary. The En-
glish version can play in French, German, or Span-
ish translation mode: the Korean and Russian re-
leases feature full use of Hangul and Cyrillic
characters, respectively. (Earlier versions include
Japanese, French, German, Spanish, and Chinese.)
Prices range from S89.95 to S129.95. (RS# 133.)

Gateway to Expansion

So you thought the Golden Gate con-
nected the San Francisco Bay with the Pa-
cific? Nah, it connects the Zorro and PC
slots on A2000s and ASOOOs. It provides
not only 25-MHz 80386SX PC/AT emu-
lation, but also up to 16MB of RAM
(4MB of which can serve as autoconfig

Amiga RAM), a PC/AT IDE hard-drive
controller, and, optionally, a PC/AT flop-
py controller for 1 1D/F.1) (loppy drives as
well. You can upgrade Vortex's Golden
Gate with an S0C387SX math coproces-
sor, and the board promises to support
multitasking. (RS# 130.)

Sound Bytes

Get into your Roland D-70 music — really into it, editing tones, patches, performances, rhythm set-
up, and other parameters in the friendly Amiga environment. With dissidents' new D-70 Editor/Li-
brarian (S50), you get unique data-manipulation features that are not available on the D-70 itself.

The software lets you create new patches or alter existing ones using either the mouse or Amiga
keyboard. As you do so, the D-70 responds instantly through MIDi so you can hear just what you're
doing. You can save parameters on Amiga disks and send them back to the D-70 at any time. A tutorial
offers tips on how to create new sounds. (RS# 131.)

Word for Word

Even if KindWords is not your word processor, you should know about the program's latest up-
grade. Why? Because The Disc Company (now a division of Activision) is offering a S50 trade-in deal
for owners of excellence!, ProWrite, PenPal, QuickWrite, Scribble, TextCraft, and WordPerfect, as well
as earlier KindWords versions.

KindWords 3 ($124.95) comes on four disks (Program, Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Extras) and in-
cludes a new manual. It boasts the proprietary Human Interface Protocol, quicker typing speed, erad-
ication of all bugs, 1 .3 and 2.0 compatibility, and scores of new features.

The program accepts 255 standard Amiga fonts in a single document and lets you change font
directories within the program, You can print using the Amiga's fonts or those of your printer, taking
advantage of the program's enhanced high-density output ability. Graphics of any resolution and color
are candidates for import, and the program can wrap text around them in a box or in contour.

Little extras include headers and footers for right and left pages, the ability to insert date and time
in various formats, medium- and hi-res modes, horizontal and vertical rulers, adjustable tracking and
line spacing, and measurement in inches or metrics. To improve efficiency, it offers on-line help and
a toolbox containing the most commonly used commands. And to help you keep track of everything,
the program tallies not only your word count, but total pages, paragraphs, lines, characters, and pic-
tures as well. (RS# 132.)

Command Performance

It works like a music synthesizer, but
controls graphics instead. The Light-
works Graphics Synthesizer (S599.95,
Euphonies) lets you "compose" com-
puter graphics and "perform" your
compositions live, either with or with-
out musical accompaniment. (With the
help of a genlock, you can also incor-
porate live video.) You get the conven-
tional wipes and fades, plus powerful
palette manipulation abilities and the
capacity to interact.

Your performances can be all interac-
tive, predetermined, or a combination
of the two. Effects are determined by a
script, which you create with the use of
menus and prompt messages; no script-
ing language is involved.

The package includes the program, a
disk or graphics-performance presets
(which you can cither customize or utilize

as is), and a hardware device that pro-
vides you with eight sliders and stereo-
audio inputs. You can use stereo sound
input — separated into its bass, mid-
range, and treble components — to create
audio/visual compositions, and you can
employ any MIDI-compatible instru-
ment to control effects. In addition to the
hardware module, you can use the .Ami-
ga's mouse, keyboard, and internal
timers as controllers — either indepen-
dently or in any combination von wish.
(RS#128.)

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A-Max II Plus

ReadySoft, S499.95.

A2000/A3000.

Internal, Zorro slot connection.

Installation: Easy.

Compatibility notes: Runs on

A1000 with Zorro

expansion box.

Once in a rare while a product comes along
that is not only supremely useful, but is also
a tribute to the versatility of the Amiga and
the inventive zeal of the Amiga develop-
ment community. A-Max II Plus is all this and a
whole lot more.

The best part of A-Max II Plus is that it does ex-
actly what it's supposed to do. It runs monochrome
Macintosh software as fast or faster than a Mac with
an equivalent processor. It runs virtually all Mac
productivity software and any well-behaved games
that don't try to do illegal hardware addressing.
(No big loss on the unsupported games; after all,
you own an Amiga.) It supports sound, printing,
modems, MIDI, large-screen displays, hard drives,
AppleTalk networks, and, best of all, it can finally
read and write Mac disks in Amiga disk drives.

Come of Age

The original A-Max was a clever hack. A-Max II was
a useful, although limited form of Macintosh emu-
lation. In its latest incarnation, A-Max II Plus has
succeeded in becoming a true professional solution:
elegant, practical, and very nearly bullet-proof.
ReadySoft overcame its final design obstacles by
adding direct support for ail Amiga disk drives (in-
ternal, external, and high-density), file transfers to
AmigaDOS hard-drive partitions, and compatibility
with System 7.0. You no longer need a bulky, expen-
sive Mac external drive cluttering your desktop,
and. with System 7.0, you can finally multitask your
Mac software.

A-Max II Plus takes over the Amiga to emulate
the Mac, and it requires Macintosh 128K ROMs,
which are sold separately at specialized dealers. You
must also provide the operating system, available

To locate the vendors of the products reviewed, see the
"Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 98.

Hard-drive installable software.
Not copy protected,
2.0 compatible.
Accelerator compatible.

Minimum system: 1MB RAM, 128K Mac ROMs, Mac OS.
Recommended system: 2+ MB RAM, hard drive,128K
Mac ROMs, Mac OS.

from Apple and in most major Mac software. The
package is a hardware and software combination
that fits into any 100-pin Zorro slot and hooks to the
floppy connector (pass-through is included). You
must plug in the ROMs, insert the board, and run
the software.

For me, the whole procedure took less than 20
minutes. Mv board was slightly out of specification,
however, and did not gracefully slide into place.
When it did fit, the MIDI and modem ports on the
back of the card were edged right up against the di-
vider panels. The variance was not enough to pre-
vent the cables from fitting in, but it was a nuisance.

I tested A-Max II Plus with System 7.0 and several
versions of System 6. I booted from Mac SCSI hard
drives, Amiga SCSI hard drives with Mac partitions,
the A-Max-created recoverable RAM disk, and Mac
disks in the Amiga disk drives. A-Max performed
flawlessly throughout.

I tested MultiMnder (Apple), Microsoft Word (Mi-
crosoft), PageMaker (Aldus), SuperPaint (Silicon
Beach Software), PC Tools for the Mac (Central
Point Software), Microphone (Sofware Ventures),
MacDraw (Claris), HyperCard (Apple), Excel (Mi-
crosoft), Professional Composer (Mark of the Uni-
corn), and a host of other heavy-hitter software, old
and new. There were no complaints from any of
them. It choked on some games, but ran more of
them than I expected.

Multitasking on a Mac is not quite as sophisticated
as multitasking on an Amiga. Multifinder does not
allow you to pull down a custom screen to get instant
access to another screen. You can't display two
screens at once, and the lack of a second mouse but-
ton requires some compromises, but System 7 checks
out overall as well on A-Max as it does on a Mac.

The AppleTalk support was a surprising bonus.
Although AppleTalk is a very slow standard, it works
just fine, and you can't beat the price. I never
thought I'd see my Amiga chugging along on an

16 October 1992

AppleTalk network, but there it was, transferring

files and running four-person RoboSport (Maxis)
over the network.

Invisible Efficiency

A-Max cheerfully found and used my Amiga paral-
lel and serial ports, and il used my Epson clone
nine-pin printer and Amiga modem as a Mac print-
er and Mac modem. Once the ports are selected
through the A-Max start-up program, their use is
utterly transparent, it was a kick to see that familiar
Mac font rolling off my printer, looking every bit as
good as an expensive Apple ImageVVriter. You can
use oilier printers as well, as long as you select the
proper driver from the Chooser. To help, ReadySoft
offers a special deal on PowerPrint ($99.95), which
has a host of obscure Mac printer drivers. To test the
serial port, I called some local boards and down-
loaded a clutch of Mac PD software, all of which
worked without a hitch.

ITsis user transparency is thoroughly integrated
into the operation of A-Max II Plus. The video mode,
screen size, display size (including scrolling virtual
screens), memory configuration (including proces-
sors and MMUs), parallel- and serial-port selection
and hard-disk drivers are all configured on the Ami-
ga side at startup, saved, and then run automatically.

File conversion and transfer are easier in the new
A-Max. Although it still handles file transfers in Mac
mode only, the support for Fast-File-System hard
drives makes the file-transfer side of A-Max easier

lOt'R TV UN!

I love A-Max II Plus. It runs System 7 without a
hitch, communicates at high baud rales, and (unlike
A-Max II) works perfectly. I can't think of a single
thing wrong w'ith it!

Peter Veach
Appleton , Wtsco win

to work with. The package comes with a Mac-for-
matted disk containing the transfer software, which
lets you transfer Mac files directly to and from the
internal floppy drive and the AmigaDOS Past Pile
System and Old File System hard-drive partitions.
File transfer is still not as effortless as CrossDOS

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(Consultron), but A-Max II Plus is a. step in the right
direction.

The only hint of trouble in Mac-emulation par-
adise comes from Apple itself. Apple has reportedly
tried to clamp down on supplies of the Mac 128K
ROMs needed to ran A-Max. Prices of these ROMS
tend to be higher now than they werewhen the orig-
inal A-Max appeared, ranging from a reasonable
SI 50 to an overpriced $350. 1 had no difficulty find-
ing reasonably priced ROMS at my local Diskcovery,
but you might have to use one of the pricier mail
order houses if you live in an area without a well-
stocked Amiga store.

The A-Max market is a curious beast, and can't
be completely served by the standard Amiga com-
munity or the conventional Mac market. 1 strongly
recommend that A-Max users form a worldwide
users' group dedicated to keeping information flow-
ing on A-Max lips, licks, idiosyncracies, and ihc
pricing and sources of those precious ROMs.

He'd Do It Again

Overall, A-Max II Plus performed like a champ. On
a stock Amiga, it's an inexpensive Mac clone.
Adding a 68030, a large Mac hard-drive partition,
and overscan mode or a larger monitor makes for
a faster, cheaper super-Mac system.

After spending nearly a month with A-Max II
Plus and System 7.0, I am utterly convinced of two
things: that ReadySoft has another hit on its hands,
and that I made the right choice in choosing the
Amiga over the Mac.

— Daniel Creenberg '

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R E V I E IV S

Impact Vis ion -24

Great Valley Products, S2199.

A2000, A3000.

Internal, Zorro and video-slot
connections.

Installation: Easy. '

Compatibility notes: Must be one
of A2000's first three slots.

Hard-drive installable software.

Not copy protected.

2.0 compatible.

Accelerator compatible.

Minimum system: 2MB RAM,
hard drive; 5MB RAM, accel-
erator and FPU coprocessor
(for Caligari).

Recommended system: 9MB
RAM, hard drive, accelerator,
multisync monitor.

24-bit display, multimedia,
and video production.

A complex, integrated system, the Im-
pact Vision-24 multifunction 24-bit
display board and ils Video Interface
Unit significantly expand tile Amiga's
multimedia capabilities, easily serving as
the center of a training or information
system. In addition, its 24-bit display (in-
cluding single-frame recording), nuil-
tiformat transcoding, genlocking, and
encoding abilities would be eqtiallv at
home in a video-production house.

Like NewTek's Video Toaster, the IV-24
accepts a composite video signal, encodes
and keys native Amiga graphics over in-
coming video, and displavs 24-bit pic-
tures. The IV-24 takes broader aim than
simply video, however, succeeding well in
many areas and limping along in others.

Go In and Out the Windows

For flicker-free video, just hook up a mul-
tisync RGB monitor to the hoard's 15-
pin monitor-out port. (While an optional
adaptor lets you use a stock Amiga mon-
itor, you lose the advantage of the cle-
interlacer.) Connecting to a port on the
card, the external Video Interface Unit
(VIU) has separated RGB, two composite
video, digital- or analog-key, referencc-
sync, and SVHS inputs; outputs are com-
posite, SVHS, and key.

For an additional S500, you can add
(he capabilities of the Component Trans-
coder version of the VIU (V1U-CT): sep-
arated RGB and sync output with full
transcoding to component formats (Beta-
cam and Mil), key-out, Y/C, and compos-
ite out, as well as RGB pass-through for
monitor connections. The IV-24 syncs to
nearly any source, but GVP recommends
a time-base corrector for best results.

Hardware and software installation are

straightforward and well explained in
the excellent manual. Moreover, GVP's
technical support team is very helpful.
They speedily replaced a faulty board For
me and helped resolve several system
conflicts.

Three programs manage IV-24's work-
ings, input and output signals, and gen-
locking/overlay. The main user interface
is the IVCP2 control panel, a Commod-
ity under Workbench 2.0. (Under 1.3,
two alternate programs control the IV-24
and the VIU.) IVCP2 provides button
and slider control over the IV-24's func-
tion mode (scan rate, genlock, display
depth), RGB and composite output
modes, framegrabbing, calibration, in-
put-signal processing, and output for-
mat. IVPiP handles IV-24's picture-in-
picture feature, while IVGrab lets you
grab frames from the board. All three
programs are accessible from hot keys
and ARexx controls for true integrated
functioning.

Signal-processing gadgets handle gain.
brightness, color, hue, red/blue contrast,
and brightness and liuna (white) levels
for the incoming video signal. You can
also line-tune the RGB input and output,
composite output (for color and sub-car-
rier phase adjustment), and composite
key levels. I only wish the Toaster had
such features built into it.

Also unique to the IV-24, the picture-
in-picture feature brings the video source
(composite, SVHS, RGB, and so on), into
a 12-bit (4096-color) window on Work-
bench. Although it's not a standard Intui-
tion window, vou can position, resize,
scroll, and scale the PIP window. You can
even revet se the display for a Wi nkbent h
window on incoming video. In addition,
after setting save and image size defaults
in JVCP2, you can freeze and grab the in-
coming video or the entire screen (video
and Workbench) on the Ily as a standard
I FF24 file. "Flic composite encoder is very

- VOIR TURN!

-V

I use Impact Vision-24 for grabbing
frames off of live video — it's the best
method I have seen. While it's not fully
a real-time 24-bit display device, it sure
lias nice color and clarity. ( -VI's software
is very smooth and runs under 2.t) with-
out a hitch. The Video Interface Unit is
really slick; it gives the machine multiple
inputs and outputs, and its several LEDs
let you know what's going on at a glance.

Michael Schiller

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

clean and crisp; video passing through
the VIU suffers no degradation.

Along for the Ride

To enhance its production capabilities,
the IV-24 comes with specially adapted
versions of Caligari2 (a 3-D modeler and
animator), Scala (a titling and presenta-
tion program), and MacroPaint IV-24 (a
24-bit paint program). They're the weak-
est players on the IV-24 team, however,
so plan on investing in some third-party
products that support the board, such

Genlocking Is just one of Impact Vision-
24's many facets.

; many facets

as ASDG's Art Department Professional
and Tecsoft's 'IVPahtt.

Both CaligariS (reviewed July '92, p.
20) and Scala (July '91, p. 78) are scaled-
down editions, and both produce a cor-
respondingly scaled-down sense of satis-
faction. Simple to learn, Scala produces
crisp titles with all the typographical
attributes you could want, and it pro-
vides a wide variety of smooth page
transitions. Pages and transitions are se-
quenced in a script that vou can replay
from the program or through an external
player software. The two main elements
missing are animation control and ARexx
support; for these, you must purchase the
full-blown multimedia version.

Featuring its familiar and fabulous in-
terlace, Caligari2 renders directly to the
IV-24. It lacks point editing, dither con-
trol, antialiasing, and animation support,
however; for these, you must upgrade.

MacroPaint f\-24 offers near-real-time
painting (meaning that there is a bit of
a delay while the changes are rendered
to the IV-24's framebuffer) and a full
ARexx implementation for easy auto-
mated image grabbing and cropping.
While the program has quite an exten-
sive range of features, tools, and effects,
it nevertheless feels jumpy and sluggish.
As a matter of personal preference, I also
line! awkward the tool and palette-strip
placement and the method of working
with custom brushes. •»■

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BRAG, IUST FACTS!

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REVIEWS

Notwithstanding the above com-
plaints, the IV-24 merits very serious
consideration. It has a unique and pow-
erful place at the center ofa multimedia
development and delivery station, and
video producers will find it very useful as
a display, encoder, and transcoding card,
especially in conjunction with an exter-
nal switcher. With better performance
production software, the IV-24 could
very well be the brave new future of in-
tegrated multimedia production.

— Michael Hanish

Personal TBC II

Digital Processing Systems, $995.

A2000, A3000, A3000T.
Internal, IBM-slot and serial

connection.
Installation: Moderate.
Hard-drive installable software.
Not copy protected.
2.0 compatible.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: 512K RAM.
Recommended system: 4+ MB

RAM, video-editing system.

Industrial video production.

TBC/PCB

Prime image, S1 050.

A2000, A3000.

Internal, IBM-slot connection.
Installation: Moderate.
Hard-drive installable software.
Not copy protected.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: 512K RAM.
Recommended system: 4+ MB
RAM, video-editing system.

Industrial video production.

TBCard

/.Den Videotronics Corp., S995.

A2000, A3000 (with additional power

supply).
Internal, IBM-slot connection.
Installation: Moderate.

Industrial video production,

More and more video manufacturers
are designing products for desk-
top instead of rack-mount systems —
but do they stack up as well in the stu-
dio"- To find out, I put three internal

The multiburst signal shown (upper left— reference; upper right — Personal TBC II;
lower left— TBCard; and lower right— TBC/PCB) has five packets that represent the
frequencies 400 KHz, 1 MHz, 3 MHz, 3.58 HHi, and 4.2 MHz, respectively, from the
left. To determine signal-response quality, compare the results from each TBC to the
reference. Each packet should pass its full amplitude from bottom to top; however, a
comb or notch filter will make the 3.58 MHz packet appear squashed.

time-base corrector cards to the test.

The Personal TBC II, TBC/PCB, and
TBCard were warmed up For an hour
each in an Amiga 2000, A/B-roll editing
environment, with a stable black-burst
signal piped to NewTek's Video Toaster.
I fed each one SMPTE color bars from
the Toaster for evaluation on a vec-
lorscope and, using DPS's software-
based signal generator, a multiburst sig-
nal from the Toaster for viewing on a
waveform monitor (see photos above).

Personal TBC II

The back of the Personal TBC II card is
packed with a genlock timing switch, a
lefco serial-data in, an SVHS four-pin
video in, BNC connectors for N TSC
video in and out, multifunction I/O, gen-
lock video in, and a genlock LED indica-
tor. Hie multifunction I/O supports ad-
vanced sync out and can be configured
through the TBC's internal jumper. A
DIP switch for the connectors gives fur-
ther flexibility. Also, for multiple sources,
you can daisy-chain Personal TBCs.

The software installs automatically and
sports a clear button- and slider-lilled in-
terface. The Video Processor panel lets
you fine-tune video (signal), black (DC),

and chroma (color) levels; hue (tint), and
horizontal-positioning in percentages,
degrees, and microseconds. You can also
store and recall ten commonly used set-
ling groups. To restore all settings to uni-
ty or reverse your last action, click the
Unity or Undo gadgets, respectively. To
specify- which VTR the adjustments are
for. click one of the lour numbered but-
tons or All VCRs.

The Genlock menu lets you disable or
enable the genlock feature and make
coarse, fine, left, and right adjustments.
To toggle between inputs (composite or
SVHS), capture a single video field, or
tweak the white balance, consult the
Video Control buttons. The TBC) Pro-
ject menu takes you to and (torn the
Video Toaster Switcher or Workbench
and lets you load and save defaults.
There's even a menu to control DPS's
Personal V-Scope.

The Personal TBC II performed well
in the edit. It produced a rock-steady
signal on the vectorscope, indicating
very stable chroma phase. The frequen-
cy response was also above average, On
the downside, I could not get a stable
freeze from the software option. Overall,
the Personal IBC II is a good unit, but i

20 Oduhrr 1992

Important News

For The Power Hungry:

Your Dinner's Ready.

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The new Amiga' 3000T multimedia
workstation tower — the most expandable,
flexible Amiga ever built.

Now powered by a 25 MHZ Motorola
68040 CPU, the A3000T is faster than
ever before. (Current
A3000T users can upgrade
to a 040-based accelerator
card for just $1,998.)
The A3000T features a 200MB hard disk
drive. A 3.5" floppy disk drive. 5MB of RAM,
expandable to 18MB. And 32 bit bus arch-
itecture to transfer mammoth amounts of

information at breakneck speed.
The truly power famished will
be happy to know that the
A3000T is stuffed with an

abundant selection of
expansion slots.
There's a co-
processor slot. A
video slot for
internal devices.
Up to four PC
slots. And up to five
Zorro III slots. Ever)'
Amiga 3000 series computer comes with
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Now, you'd expect a power feast like
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I think it would be even better with a
solid freeze.

TBCard

The TBCard is a hardware-only solu-
tion controlled through I. Den's TR-7 re-
mote-control unit (SI 95), which plugs
into a 15-pin, D-sub female connector
on the back of the card. Nearby, you'll
also find RCA connectors (and BNC
convenors) For reference/genlock in
and thru, video in and out, composite
in, and V/C in. In addition, there is an
internal jumper for selecting either

t HI E W S

NTSC or SVHS. The TR-7 sports rotary

knobs for processing the video level.
chroma level, set-up (relative bright-
ness), and hue. You adjust the horizon-
tal and subcarrier phase via two small
screws, while frame and field freezing
are handled by buttons. Finally, I. DEN
supplies a set of internal potentiome-
ters for fine tuning — or in case you do
not purchase the remote.

TBCard performance was average, al-
though it was the easiest to control (I
prefer twisting a knob to pushing a
mouse). The frame and field freezes in-

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troduced some noise into the picture in-
formation with jitter; they were, how-
ever, adequate for most purposes. The
processing controls for incoming video
corrected the majority of problems in
short order. (But just keep in mind that
the features are limited.)

During the color-bar test, the TB-
Card exhibited chroma phase jitter on
the vectorscope, but it was by no means
fatal. TBCs in this price range have a
tendency to be slightly under spec.
For frequency response, the unit was
average. While not top-of-the-line, the
TBCard is w"orth considering for its
straightforward interface, ease of use,
and low price.

TBC/PCB

The TBC/PCB is just as packed as the
other two. Three RCA connectors (with
BNC converters) for composite in and

out and genlock in grace the back of the
board, as do industry-standard SVHS in
and out connectors. An internal jumper
for genlock termination is supplied,
along with serial loop, serial remote, and
external remote connectors. Via the in-
ternal DIP switches, you can assign ad-
ditional TBC cards and configure for
the optional remote-control unit (S250)
or software. The remote's cable feeds
through a hole on the mounting bracket
and plugs into the card's 14-pin serial re-
mote connector.

The remote's 14 multipurpose buttons
and many corresponding LEDs let you
control and monitor the board's func-
tions. The primary and secondary oper-
ations scheme requires holding down the
Function button to access the secondary
features (setting the four presets; en-
abling automatic gain control; adjust-
ing black and white; horizontal position-
ing and color alignment; vertical color
alignment; and enabling the strobe). Pri-
mary controls select boards (channels) 1
through 4; adjust contrast, color satur-
ation, hue, and brightness; select com-
posite or V/C; enhance sharpness; and
freeze fields and frames.

Quicker to use than the remote's many
key combinations, TBC/PCB's software
features large, easv-to-read gadgets that
control all the functions the remote does,
plus two more. The software adds a
speed setting for the strobe, as well as a
Hide gadget, which pops you in and out
of other programs.

The TBC/PCB gave a mixed perfor-
mance in the edit. The freezes were sat-
isfactory, with only a slight amount of
noise and jitter. The strobing worked,
but not as well as that available in the
Kitchen Sync (Digital Creations). The
horizontal portion of the video informa- i

22 October 1992

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REVIEWS

tion was squashed, however. When I ran
color bars into the unit, the vectorscope
displayed almost 20 degrees of chroma-
phase jitter, indicating unstable phase.
With this problem, I can't recommend it.

Time Out

Time-base correctors have always been
an expensive proposition. The latest
generation is more affordable, but has
costs of another kind. Currently, it is
impossible to achieve true broadcast
quality at the prices of these TBCs.
With all its whistles, bells, and freeze

capabilities, the TBC/PCB lacks the
very thing you purchase a TBC for —
the ability to lime, stabilize, and correct
signal problems.

Even the TBCard, with its simple
hardware interface and freezing capabil-
ities, falls short of fulfilling my basic re-
quirements for a TBC. If you are looking
for broadcast-perfect video, look else-
where, but be prepared to pay the price.
For industrial or near-broadcast projects,
consider the Personal TBC II's clean sig-
nal, stability, ease of use, and price.

— Joel Tessler

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Digital Micronics, S549
(S649 external),

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with SCSI adapter.
Internal or external, SCSI bus

connection.
Installation: Easy.
Compatiblity notes: Requires

SCSI controller.

Mass storage; hard-drive backup;
reading IBM floppies.

128MB Magneto
Optical Drive

Digital Micronics, S1595
(S1 695 external),

A2000, A3OO0; A500, A1000 with

SCSI adapter.
Internal or external, SCSI bus

connection.
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Compatiblity notes: Requires

SCSI controller.

Fast-Access high-end storage.

When most computer owners hear the
words "mass storage," they auto-
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drive. Digital Micronics' 128MB Magne-
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anything hut conventional. Both use re-
movable media, which means that you
can increase their storage capabilities
just by adding new data disks. Moreover,
because both include a standard SCSI in-
terface, they can easily be integrated into
your existing SCSI hard-drive setup.

The S'/a-inch magneto-optical drive is
a rewritable optical drive. The technolo-
gy is similar to CD-ROM in that it uses
a laser beam pickup to read the disk.
Unlike CD-ROM or WORM drives, how-
ever, you can write to these disks, erase
your files, and write over them. The laser
technology makes the drives extremely
reliable, virtually silent, and somewhat
more expensive than conventional hard
drives. The small size of the data disk
means, however, that it stores appre-
ciably less than the full-sized optical
disks (128MB or 121MB formatted ver-
sus 600MB).

DMI's floptical drive uses a new tech-
nology that packs 2 1 MB of data (19MB
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Contimted on p. 54,

24 October 1992

ProPage: "Error Reading File"

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Professional Page 3,0 and PageStream 2.2 both can import IFF
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that readily available. Unless your desktop publisher can read GIF, TIFF,
PCX, IMG and MacPaint pictures, you are missing out on the vast
selection of commercial and public domain graphics.

When you try to import a GIF or TIFF picture into ProPage, you
are faced with the "Error Reading File" message. To use other graphic
formats with ProPage, you must acquire an array of conversion utilities.

File formats are something you shouldn't have to worry about.
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are no problem for PageStream. From black and white to
16 million colors, no other desktop publisher comes
close to PageStream in flexibility and power.

Of course, PageStream also supports more vector
graphic, PostScript and text import options than any other
Amiga desktop publisher.

PageStream 2.2 has it all: more power and more flexibility. '
At $299.95, PageStream is your best DTP value.

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stars that turn into panthers, and the now clas-
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The process has spawned some of the more
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high-end proprietary software, the Amiga —
with some very exciting new image-processing
packages — is ready to make its mark in the
morphing game in a big way.

Black Belt Systems' Imagemaster {S 1 99.95)
was the first Amiga program lo offer image
morphing, and now two other heavy hitters in
the Amiga field — Great Valley Products (GVP)
and ASDG — are about to make a splash. We'll

take a look at morphing basics in the main
part of the article, using Imagemaster as our
reference, and also tackle a morphing project.
The sidebars accompanying the article will
then provide sneak previews of beta versions
of the two highly promising newcomers — a
GVP product that is currently code-named
Mirage and ASDG's Morph Plus.

The "Real" Thing

Image morphing should not be confused with
three-dimensional metamorphosis. The two
processes are distinctly different; morphing
involves flat (2-D) images, while metamorpho-
sis is concerned with three-dimensional ob-
jects. In a metamorphosis, you create two dif-
ferent 3-D objects with corresponding points.
Over a given number of frames, you move the
points from the first object to the correspond-
ing points of the second. *■

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The main problem with metamorphosis is Lhat
3-D modeling lias not vet evolved to a stage where a
photo-realistic image, say, a human face or [hat of an
animal, can easily he created without a cyber scan-
ner — not to mention the nightmare of moving a few
thousand points ("or the transformation to operate cor-
rectly. As you will see later in the article, however, you
can use 2-0 imagc-morphing techniques to help cre-
ate :'i-l) animation sequences.

A more realistic approach to computer-graphics
transformations is to start with real images. Video
Frames and photographs of real people or objects
are perfect subjects for morpbing. Willi the use of
real images, it is not surprising that many people
hardly realize litis type of special effect is computer
generated.

Morpbing is accomplished by stretching and
squashing both the source and destination image into
the same graphic space. For example, in the case of
morpbing a truck into a car, you stretch the car image
to fill exactly the same area as the truck image. The
headlights, windshield, and grill of both vehicles
should match as closely as possibly. As the morpb pro-
gresses, the car image slowly returns to its original
form as the truck image squashes into the shape of
the car. A cross-dissolve is applied to the image se-

quence, creating the illusion that a magical transfor-
mation has taken place. While the process may sound
complicated and does take a bit of time to set up,
morpbing turns out to be a rather simple, yet impres-
sive technique.

Morph Basics

With Imagemaster. simply load your beginning and
ending images, then select the morpbing option from
the Composition panel. The two images are displayed
in one-quarter size next to each other at the lop of the
screen. A control panel located at the bottom of the
screen contains all the morpbing tools you will need.

Start inorphing by placing points on the first image
along the edges and features of the subject you wish to
morpb. Basically, these [joints move a give number of
pixels under them in a given direction — a method sim-
ilar to that of a controlled smear with sharp edges that
you can perform with some paint programs. With each
point moving only a few hundred pixels, it is necessary
to use numerous points close together. As you place the
points on the first image, they will also appear on the
second.

You do the morph by moving the points on the sec-
ond image so as to correspond to the same features in
the first. This lets Imagemaster push both images into

MIRAGE: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO WARP

A BRAND-XEW image-processing sys-
tem from CAT sporting the code name
"Mirage" is about to make some giant
"warping" strides into the morpbing
arena. The image-morphing function
in Mirage is drastically different from
that of Imagemaster. Morpbing in Mi-
rage closely resembles the techniques
used bv high-end special-effects sys-

With GVP's Mirage, transforming
one image into another is a process
of image warping rather than
image morphing.

terns. The program's image morphing
is based on a spline mesh that actually
warps the image instead of pushing or
pulling pixels. This allows lor cleaner
edges, better alignment of subjects" lca-
tures. and a smoother morph overall.
The morphing function in Mirage
can be found in the Hooks requester,
accessible from the main menu. Mirage

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provides a familiar two-window display,
with the source and destination images
each displayed in their own windows.
You can rescalc each of the windows all
the way to full screen, allowing for de-
tailed morphing setups. Individual
morpbing tools are available via conve-
nient pull-down menus.
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the same graphic shape. Applying a cross-dissolve dur-
ing the shape change produces the murplicd sequence.

Prepare to Morph

Software that allows the Amiga to morph is only part of
the process. The preparation of the morph subjects is
ol viral importance, and there are some genera! rules of
thumb you should follow. It is best 10 frame each of the
subjects as closely as you can. Willi ihe subjects framed
tightly and in a similar fashion, il is easier to set up the
morph so that it will produce as smooth a sequence as
possible. The edges of ihe screen should be considered
off limits for [magemaster users. If the morph subject
touches the edge of ihe screen, Imagemaster has a len-
deucy to pull black patches into the frame.

Also, as most backgrounds do not morph well, pho-
tograph your subject in front of a plain background or
a solid-colored wall. If some other background must be
used, shoot it first with the subjects and then without
them. Using a paint program, you can remove the un-
wanted background, leaving only the morph subjects.
In this way, you can set up your morph sequence using
the cut-out subjects and later composite the original
background behind the morphed frames.

Separating morph subjects is also a good way to
morph more than one item at a time, tfa scene requires

a car seat, dashboard, and door panel to morph at the
same time, the morph becomes difficult to set up in one
pass. To complete ihe scene, separate the items, create
a morph sequence for each one, and then composite all
of the finished morphed elements together.

More Morphing Possibilities

So far, we have dealt essentially with still morpbs, but
the technique is easily applied to full-motion morpbs,
as well. What happens in thai case is thai you perform
a still morph between each frame of the source-image
sequence and its corresponding frame in the destina-
tion-image sequence. Morphing each pair together,
you can then render whatever number of morphed
frames are necessary for the proper motion sequence.

This process, unfortunately, can become very labor
intensive, because you must sel up each frame of the
sequence individually to perform each separate
morph. GWs "Mirage" program, however, does pro-
vide an image-sequence load option that makes doing
a full-motion morph quite a bit easier.

As mentioned earlier, you can also employ image
morphing in creating three-dimensional animation se-
quences. The technique serves to simplify the process
of creating complex 3-D objects that must morph into
other 3-D objects in a given scene. Simply render the i

an image into both the source and des-
tination windows. A spline mesh is then
displayed over each of the images, with
a series of points at the intersections of
the mesh. You pull the source-image
mesh to match ihe edges and features of
the morph subject, and then manipulate
the destination-image mesh to match
the corresponding edges and features of

the destination image. Editing options
are available for setting a timing curve
for the dissolve, as well as for specifying
keyframe rates. You can set the auves
manually or use one of four presets —
linear, sinusoidal, hyperbolic, or Hat.
The final sequence should produce a
smoothly morphed transition.

Because the version of Mirage I used

for this article was very much a beta
one, I was not able to create a morph
sequence for illustration in this article.
The segment of the sequence that does
appear here was produced by develop-
ers ai GVP working with the latest ver-
sion of the software just prior to the
time this article went to press.

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objects in their correct screen locations with a plain
background. Load the images into the appropriate
morphing software, squashing and stretching them
into a perfectly inorphed sequence. Then, in a way
similar to the background-compositing technique dis-
cussed earlier, you can create a computer-generated
background that will later he composited behind each
ol the inorphed frames. This is how the movie studios
accomplished some of the mote complicated 3-D
morphs in such films as The Alms and Terminator 2.

Project "Morphasaurus"

To conclude our tour of image morphing, here is an
Imagemaster project, some of the components of
which can be seen in the illustration opening this arti-
cle. My "Morphasaurus" example involves a human
head that transforms into a dinosaur head — a twist on
the classic face-to-face morph. While the face-to-lace
variety is immensely popular right now, remember that
there are still vast untapped possibilities for image
morphing available to the creative Amiga user. Once
vou gel the hang of morphing, I urge you to try some
of them.

It may be interesting to morph totally dissimilar ob-
jects, like a sports car and a person. The shapes and
textures that a dissimilar morph generate are fascinat-
ing to watch. Also, try morphing a single image — with
no dissolve. This type of morph can stretch and bend
the image into an assortment of unusual shapes.

for now, however, let's concentrate on the mor-
phasaurus. The two images required for the morph
were first captured with the Video Toaster, while the
background was painted a solid-blue color. The first
image (me) was framed in the center, with only the
neck and shoulders touching the bottom of the screen
to offset Imagemaster's tendency (noted earlier) to pull
in black patches from the edges of the screen. The im-
age of the dinosaur head, provided by CrisweU Produc-
tions in Van Nuys, California, was framed as closely as
possible to match the first image. Using Imagemaster,
I loaded the first image into the primary buffer and the
second image into the secondary buffer.

lb start morphing. vou first define the features of the
morph subject — eyes, mouth, nose, and hairline. The
reason for detailing the inside features first is that due
to Imagemaster's small morphing windows, you may

MORPH PLUS A FEW THINGS MORE

A PIONEKR IN quality image process-
ing, ASDG has recently been working
on a new set of advanced image-pro-
cessing tools. The result is Morph Phis,
scheduled to begin shipping this fall,
which works as both a stand-alone
package or as an upgrade set of mod-
ules for AD Pro 2.

Morph Plus is strikingly different
from other morphing programs cur-
rently available for the Amiga — or. in
fact, Tor the Macintosh. The software
is a hybrid product thai combines
several high-end techniques into a
unique and very impressive interface.
While other programs depend upon
dual windows to display the source

ASDG's Morph Plus offers an
arsenal of tools for producing morphs,
warps, and other image-processing
functions.

and destination images for setting up
a morph. Morph Plus uses the full
screen for both the beginning and
ending images. You can display either
image individually, or you can toggle
an "onion skin" transparancy mode
(similar to thai of Electronic Arts'
DeluxePaint IV or Disney's Animation
Studio) to instantly show the differ-
ences between the morph subjei ts.

Setting points in Morph Plus is ac-
complished in a somewhat different
way than in Imagemaster's point-setup
mode. Kach "point" is actually a vector
(bat connects specific points on the two
different images. Each vector mathe-
matically warps the image in a given di-

rection according to its beginning and
ending points, which are respectively
depicted bv a solid and open square.
Once they're established, vou can view
your "points" as line segments or as in-
dividual points. To help tell which
points are which, you can number
t hem. Yon can also zoom in on the im-
age to differentiate between points that
lie very close together.

Once you have loaded your source
and destination files, .YD Pro automat-
ically converts them and displays the
source in a full-size screen. Starting with
either image, you outline the features of
the morph subjects, using the appropri-
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quickly encounter great numbers of points rh;it become
too close together to move easily.

Plate (he points on the source image, using the Add
Points command. When placed, the source [joints will
appear in the same x/y locations on the destination im-
age. You then move these points so that the)' corre-
spond to the same Feature ofthe destination image. Via
the Swap All command, Imagemaster causes the im-
ages and the [joints to change windows so that you can
work on particular portions of the morph subject.

In my human-face-to-dinosaur-face morph, die eyes
ofthe dinosaur are much larger than the eyes in the
human image. I used the Swap command so that I
could outline the larger eyes of the dinosaur more eas-
ily; these [joints could then be moved into a tighter
pattern around the human eyes. In general, the Swap
command allows the user to pick the features on either
image that are the simplest around which to manipu-
late [joints. The number of points used depends on the
complexit)' ofthe feature. Von can morph a human eve
with as few as eight or ten points, but, generally, the
more points you use, the smoother the edges of the
morplted subject will be.

Once you have arranged a particular feature ofthe
morph subject, you can place the outline points of that
subject These points should simply outline the head,
neck, neckline, and shoulders, Space these points even-
ly, keeping the total down to a fairlv moderate number.
The final editing ofthe morph will depend on the dis-
solve curve and number of frames you choose. I have
discovered the best curve is one that starts slowly, dis-
solves quickly through a few frames, and then ends
slowly. This type of curve works well because the dis-
solve is quickly animated and is thus less noticeable,

With the x and y resolutions set, you can commence
morphing. A good way to test the morphed animation
is to use Imagemaster's film Strip lool. or to render the
animation in low resolution. When you are satisfied, you
can render the finished animation frames in full 24-bit
high-resolution II-T or any other format you wish. ■

Mark Swain is a California-based freelance writer, video post
producer, and computer animator. He is currently working on
the new Babylon 5 TV series due to air sometime later this
year. Write to him c/o AtnigaWorld Editorial, SO Elm St.,
'Peterborough, NH 03458.

capable ol matching as manv features as
you are willing lo set up. In testing
Morph Plus on (wo human faces, it was
possible to perfectly match the head,
hair, nose bridge, nostrils, facial creases,
and so on, right down to the inner ears
and pupils ofthe eves.

Once the morph vectors have been
set, they are connected to a ribbon
mesh, which allows for ultra-smooth ma-
nipulation, warping the image precisely
along the mesh path. The program ren-
ders the morph at the rate of approxi-
mately three minutes per frame. It can
perform true, full-motion morphs with
the help of an updated version ofthe
company's FRED (KRame EDitor) pro-

gram, which is included in the package
wilh Morph Plus.

Morph Plus's single-image Warping
mode blends and stretches images with
the same methods that are used in the
two-image morphing module. For exam-
ple, if you want to make a person's head
gixjw over a defined number of frames,
image warping provides the means.

Warps and morphs, however, are
only part of Morph Plus. Its Ripple
Generator, which ASDG describes as
using ray-trace-style computations, al-
lows you to cover an image with trans-
parent material (water, glass, crystal,
gelatin, and so forth) and then create
ripples in it. You can create multiple

ripples and make their waves interact
when they come into contact with each
other.

Perhaps most important of all, be-
cause you can access Morph Plus via
ARexx and use it with other AD Pro
features, you can combine any of
Morph Plus's effects to create even
more complex animations. While they
do take a bit more time to perform
than some ofthe popular hardware ef-
fects (like those done with the Video
Toaster), the output is excellent and
free of any artifacts or pixelizations
commonly encountered with real-time
products.

— Lou Wallace and Mark Swain □

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Successful Video

2/jqw want to get serious about desktop video, here's a no-nonsense guide

to building a good, medium-priced studio using the

growing family of Amiga-based video-production tools.

rm

tL±

he Amiga, in conjunction with NewTek's
Video Toaster, is at the center of the cur-
rent desktop-video revolution. Today, a
moderately priced video studio based on
this dynamic duo can compete with
megabuck professional- video facilities. If
you're ready to step into the world of
video production, but not ready to sign
away a few hundred thousand dollars, then grab this
guide for building your own Amiga-based studio and
start planning. (To locate vendors of the products mentioned,
see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on j>. 98.)

How It All Becan

For years, the world of video producers was artificially
segmented by manufacturers into a rigid caste system
of "consumer," "industrial," and "broadcast." This
marketing strategy resulted in the signal quality of
equipment targeted to the consumer and industrial
niches sometimes being purposely degraded by com-
pany engineers so that it would not pose competition
For their own broadcast products — which were kept ex-
orbitantly expensive. When NewTek's Video Toaster
popped up at the NAB (National Association of
Broadcasters) convention in Ijis Vegas in April, 1991,
this all began to change.

Ironically, it was the recession-plagued broadcasters
who exploded the biggest bombs under the old system
and launched the desktop-video revolution into high

orbit. Revenues were nose-diving in 1991, but broad-
casters still had to compete with sophisticated — and ex-
pensive — MTV-style digital video effects. The 'Ibaster's
combination of affordability, versatility, and high-qual-
ity D2 NTSC video processing caught their attention.
Suddenly, Amigas and Toasters began appearing in
posh Hollywood facilities, cable studios, broadcast sta-
tions, and small studios across the land.

The "Newlek Revolution" fractured technofallacies
that had plagued independent videomakers for years.
Production quality today is as much a result of creativity
and content as it is of cost. With careful attention to
how you tell the story and to maintaining basic quality
.standards, a modestly priced studio can create distinc-
tive video. The desktop-video revolution is based on a
new ethic: "the best possible quality at the lowest pos-
sible cost — for everyone."

A good, medium-priced Amiga-based studio that
can be upgraded as you go along will be built with the
Video Toaster 2.0 (S2495, NewTek) at its core. If you
have an Amiga 2000 (the most likely choice), you may
want to add a MegAChip 2000 board ($349 including
the Agnus chip, DKB Software) to bring your chip
RAM up to two megabytes so your system will be able
to handle heavy graphics and multitasking demands.
Having at least 7MB of fast RAM is also wise. If you
have ait Amiga 3000, you need the Toaster Cozzy
($798, Heifner Communications; bundled with the
Video Toaster 2.0, $2690). If you have a souped-up '

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A500 with a video slot, the Cozzy can also bring yon
into the ranks of Toaster users.

For hefty projects such as feature films and television
series, multiple Amigas arc often networked together
with other computers. As your studio develops, you
may add additional computer power. Because of the
desktop explosion, PC and Mac developers are scram-
bling to make their equipment talk to (he Amiga/Toast-
er now. Connectivity is the word of the future.

The heart and soul of my studio is the Amiga/Toast-
er, but we use Macs and PCs for business, databases,
scripting, and storyboards. A PC clone services the
Amiga/Toaster by providing extra slots for video cards
and supporting a tape logger and edit controller with
triggers lor the Toaster and video decks. At the core,
the Amiga/Toaster is used for production, all post pro-
duction, and generating print graphics for marketing
and storyboards.

Format Wars

Whether your source footage is animation, live-action
single camera, live-action multicamera, stills, archive
footage, or a combination of all of them, the lirst and
most formidable question you'll encounter is which
video format to choose. The bad news is that there are
a ton of choices. In ascending order of qualitv thev are:
8, VHS, 7,-inch, Hi8, SVHS, 'A-inch SP, Betacam, Mil,
Betacam SP, 1-inch, D2, and Film.
The good news is that among them, you will find

something to fit your budget. In general, the compo-
nent and digital-encoding formats f'A-inch SP, SVHS,
Hi8, D2. and Betacam SP) are later technologies with
more sophisticated handling of the chroma and lumi-
nance (Y/C) segments of the NTSC video signal. No
matter which format you choose, however, the ability
to carry real SMPTE time code is critical. (See "Frames
of Reference," AmigaWbrld 1992 Special Issue, p. 27, for
a detailed discussion of time code.)

The quality ol your camera and Lens will have as sig-
nificant a bearing on picture quality 7 as will the format.
For single-camera field production, there are versatile
camera heads that host dockable tape-recorder "backs."
The Sony DXC 537 can handle Betacam or HiS hacks
and even the Panasonic AG7450 SVHS hacks. Betacam
SP with time code is often the first choice of those who
can afford it, but in rough environments or low-budget
assignments, many videographers today have confi-
dence in Hi8 as a first-generation format suitable for
news and documentary programs. The Sony DXC 325
3CCD with a Fujinon lens and the EW9000 recorder
also get good reports.

Don't be misled, though; M iS is a format used for
low-cost sourcing, best converted immediately to a
higher format. Few professional producers would con-
sider creating an edited master in Hi8. Also, keep in
mind that when using His tape, Metal Particle stock is
recommended. The Sony Metal Evaporated lends to
crack and destroy video information.

Black Boxes and Other Video Mysteries

WH.YI CONVERTS AN expensive

.stack of metal and silicon circuitry
into a powerful video-production sys-
tem? Video engineers uill tell yon it's
.ill in the liming. Vs. niv U -ml i, til renin
..I 5KM khiuki t knows, good i i mini; is
rareJj a matter ol accident. The video
engineer's secret is *i series ■»! Iil.uk
boxes, cables, ami connectors thai

uork powerful iii.i'4H uirlimn i single

eagle feather or chicken i law.

Housk Sync

It begins with a kind of metronome
for video devices, a syn< hrontzing
pulse, called master svu< . >i I lie house
reference signal (i.e., "house sync*)'
The source of this pulse can be anj
device thai emits stable and steady
RS170A video-riming signals. Man)
people buv a special blink-burst gen-
erator such as the Harita BSG-50
($289). Others dedicate a video-canv
era head (no lens required).

TiMK-BASE CORRKlTOK-S

Although I he Video louslei can accept
video inputs [mm a camera without
signal loiiectimi, video from any
videotape source needs |ti be pro-
cessed by a time-base corrector (TIW'I.
It coordinates die video Muti.tl m the

house sync so that the switcher and
the editor can combine video sources
without any electronic hiccups. TBGs
should have easily accessible M proc-
.ii up (process-ainplification) controls
1 1 it adjusting components ol the
video signal sulIi as chroma, hue, lu-
minance, and black levels,

TradilionaJK, I lids were real
bla< k boxes outside the V( !R. "tbdav,

several VCRs have built-in I BCs,

and I ill*, t aids dial slip right into
the Amiga are emerging. Many peo-
ple, however; prefer external TBCs
because: ! ) isolation prevents die sig-
nal noise that can be introduced into
your video when several devices thai
are close together share (he same
power supply; 2) it's nice to have
knobs to wrap vour fingers around
when von discover you forgot to col-
or-balance your camera riming a
critical scene :uu\ now need loin to
"correct it in post": and 3) most new-
er external TBCs have a convenieni
freeze -frame button thai is instant,
stable, and amazingly useful.

These stand-alone units, however,
usually cost between $1200 and
$4200. for thai reason, the new soft-
ware-touirolled internal TBC cards,
[it about $900 per channel, have ap-

peal lor even ihc most conservative
producer. The Personal TBC H
(SSOIL Digital Proccssmg Systems).
Iiu example, is a single-* hannel I lit
< ard thai delivers impressive results.
The Kitchen Syne (SIS'.O. Digital
Creations) is a two -(.hannel I B( With
external controls that operate as il
von were setting a digital wrisiwalch
rather than using a traditional out-
board TBC t.Dt:N\ TBCard ($995;
with TR7 remote control, $1029)
provides an outboard-boxopiiini lot
those who like to twirl the knobs. It
is also the onlv card available at this
writing with true interlaced freeze-

frame capability, Be aware nf the dil-

leience lulut-ni fin i, Intuit .nnl fn « .

field. Several TBC cards offer a single
video-field freeze, which is no!
broadcast standard and often jiueiv

Time Code

SMPTE time-code readers/genera-
tors are what make youi desktop-
video studio actually smart. Using
SMITE code {a standard developed
bytheSociet] fbi Motion Picture and
Tcievision Engineers) gives a name
and address to every one "I youi
video picture frames, II you know the
tape reel and time-code number, you

can ask vour edii controller to find

anv picture sequence for you.
True SMPTE code must he frame

locked. Some devices say lhe\ have

lime code, butifitisnotSMPH E stan-
dard, you will rapid!) outgrow rhem.

I he 1. dil i/er edit eontiollci (disi ussed
in the main article) provides a built-
in reader/generator (lor IXC) at no
extra cost. Horita oilers a wide assort-
ment of ttme-code readers/genera
tors and window-dub inserters, such
as the TG-50 ($379), and even a
VI I C.-LTC translator, the VLT-50
($289). llorita h a good company to
check with when von are looking tor
a black-box solution to a problem, at
.i reasonable price.

f i si Equipment

Test devices like waveform monitors
and vectorscopes are windows into
the electronic subcomponents of vour
video signal. Once vnu've added a
rime-base corrector with proc-amp
and color-correction adjustments, it's
essential to see exactly what all that
knob twisting is :i<( omplishint;.

I lie video uioiiilni alone is not
vi it In lent. A waveform monitor al-
lows vou to make sure dial ci ideal
levels are within quality parame-

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Sourcing in SYHS and Vi-inth SP formats is most
popular among producers who plan their production
for what is sometimes referred to as an "off-line on-
line," using a mid-level video studio to produce the fin-
ished master rather than going to a high-priced on-
line house. ("On-line" originally referred to equipment
that was directly connected to and controlled by a cen-
tral computer unit. Most production is now computer-
integrated at every phase, so "on-line" refers to an ex-
pensive "finishing" process For video thai includes and
is akin to "sweetening" for audio.)

A word of caution about light cameras: Except for
stylized sequences, your most professional look will
come from using a good fluid-head tripod, or a device
like the SteadiCam Jr. ($595, Cinema Products).
There are other solutions, but remember that unas-
sisted hand-held shooting often results in critical ma-
terial having to be discarded.

For multicamera switched production, Uuarte Public
Access Cable, like many cable systems, uses the Toaster
as the center of the studio — serving as an on-line
switcher and character generator during live produc-
tion, then doubling as part of the editing system in
post production. In this configuration, your cameras
will need to be "genlockable," that is, able to receive
an incoming genlock line to keep their signals timed
to either a lead camera or a master "house sync"
source. (We will discuss system, or "house," sync further
on in this article.) The cameras feed into the Toaster's

four inputs to appear on the switcher bus, and the Pro-
gram Out goes to your recorder.

In multicamera productions, the recorder is often
a table-top model rather than a portable. These same
decks double as part of the editing system for post
production. Popular decks range in price from $8000
for the Sony VO9850 Vi-inch SP ($1315 with optional
SMPTE reader/generator) and $6500 for the Pana-
sonic AG7750 (including built-in TBC) down to
$2000 for the JVC BR-S605U (including Hifi plus
two linear audio tracks and time-code jacks) for low-
budget productions.

Note that if you are going to use SMPTE time code,
unless your deck has a VITC (Vertical Interval Time
Code) mode, you will need two audio tracks so that one
can be used for the ITC (Longitudinal lime Code)
track. Some decks, such as the Panasonic SVHS AG
1960, have only one linear audio track, although an
adapter box from Carlson Strand — approximately
$300 — makes it possible to use time code and output
HiFi audio at the same time.

Film and Animation

Sourcing on film is an option. The technology for
SMPTE-coded film is being rapidly refined by Kodak,
which is marketing a device to conform film SMPTE
to video transfers. In this way, filmmakers can do post-
production mastering on video for distribution in
video, cable, or broadcast, or go back to a final film cut. i

it'rs thiii will allow the video to be
dubbed into distribution copies Or
broadcast without breaking up. A

vectorscope provides a SSO-degree
look .it the color signal, with "tar-
gets" I'm aligning your red. green,
blue, yellow, and cyan. Trying to
produce time-base-corrected video
without these tools is as reckless as
[liming on a blindfold for a high-
speed chase through LA traffic,

Tektronix is one of the older and
more reliable names in manufactur-
ing test equipment for broadcast en-
gineers, but the price tags fur its
units— 42000 to S5GO0— are a little
steep lor most desktop-video studios,
tin the other hand, Digital Process-
ing Systems, oilers the VM2000 Per-
sonal V-Scope NTSC Waveform
Monitor/Vectorscope ($995) card for
your Amiga, and Magni sells external
devices that provide a vectorscope
(SI iy">), a waveform monitor (SI 195),
or both (5179.1). (See this months'
Video Suite on page 4S tor details.)

All Monitors Are Not
Created Equal

No one would lonsider setting up a
video studio without a monitor. Vet.
technically speaking, some systems

would he hellet oil with nothing at ail
than with monitors that are prone, to
lie lovou. Unfortunately, mam mon-
itors are rigged with special circuits
specifically designed to tell you your
video looks belter than it does. Those
lovely, low-cost Trinitrons are nice to
look at. but they are deceiving. In
[act , dim 'I buy a monitor with color-
correction riicmls unless they can be
disabled.

One approach lor the low-budget
studio is to use low-rust levcn black-
and-white) monitors on your source
decks. Buy one good monitor for the
output ui the edit deck. This U your
"program tnunitor." ami you will
need m set li up daily to create a sta-
ble "standard reference" for your
video system.

'lb do this, you need to generate
color bars directlv into the monitor
and then adjust the hue (phase),
■ luouia (ujIoi), contrast, and lumi-
nance (brightness) on the program
monitor. Even good "eveballing" can
leave you as much as 1 59c out of
phase, si, route the signal from the
monitor into vmn waveform monitor
and vectorscope to ensure that vour
setup is accurate.

There are mam monitors you can

choose Iroin. One ven picky engi-
neer suggests the Panasonic CT Se-
ries (S:«)0-$640) as good, low-end
monitors, A more expensive bin ex-
cellent choice is the Panasonic BT
Series (SufiD-SHOO).

Don't drive yourself craw trying
to get your monitors to match; they
frequentlv just won't do so. Set vour
program monitor once a day. and
then don't touch those ili/ils! If you do
not like the wav till- video looks, just
accept that as bad news and gel back
to vour source video and the ploc-
arnp controls, Thai's what vonr pro-
gram inoniloi i~ there lor: to let vou
know you [rave a problem while you
air- still in a position todo something

about it.

Combatting the Video-Dei.av
Demon

Routing a video signal through any
device will slow the signal down
slightly. For years, engineers have
built video-delay lines into studio sys-
tems to compensate lor the color
shifts that are introduced as video

winds through the signal path on

its wav tovinu uiaslei tape, (omput-
er-haseil processors have a greater
amount of delav. Ik-lav through the

Toaster is about 400-455 nanosec-
onds (ns), and "it's enough to turn
your brown eyes blue." Delay be-
comes a problem when yon mix the
toaster output with prelbaster video.
such as when you have another spe-
cial-ellects generator ?/*i;rvwomm limn
tile loaster.

A black box called an active vide >-
delay line can be plugged inlo your
sv-tcni to correct the problem. Active

delav lines allow timing lorrcclion
without the insertion loss and distor-
tion typically associated with passive
delav lines.

Network Electronic Enterprises'
VDL1 (one-channel, $645) and
VDL2 (two-channel, $1025) broad-

cast-quality active delav lines allow
programmable delay range up to
555ns. CCI Electronics combines ac-
tive delay correctors in video distri-
bution-amplifier IDA) packages, such
as the #800-3 (S5B0; one in. seven
out. with front-panel active delay)
and the #800-8 Dual Active Delay
Amplifier ($595; with two compos-
ite-video channels and two DAs). CCI
also makes several composite-to-V (
M'uiponem iranscoders, till at rea-
sonable prices.

— PHC

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Figure 1. Post-production studio setups. (Diagram drawn by Patric Hedlund, in consultation with Network
Electronic Enterprises.)

If animations are your specially, the same format op-
tions exist, including transferring high-quality masters
onto film. There arc a number of stop-frame software
controllers, such as the Nucleus Single Frame Con-
troller (S425, Nucleus Electronics), available for anima-
tors using time-code-equipped video tape decks for
frame-by-frame recording. This is often tough on tape
transports and prone to recorder error if you do not
have a speciallv equipped deck.

An alternative method of compiling your animation
frames is The Moviemaker (S499.95, Interactive Video
Systems), a graphic-screen, frame-by-frame edit-point
system (with true SMITE coding) that compiles on a
hard disk at 100MB per minute. For instance, with a
400MB hard drive, you can edit in the digital do-
main — adjusting real-time playbacks until you are sat-
isfied — and then record over to a video recorder in full
3.5-minute segments. That is a massive saving of wear
and tear on vour equipment and yourself. You can use
this technique with any normal Amiga display mode
(DCTV— S399, Digital Creations— works well here) to
compile animations in PAL or NTSC, providing you
have at least a 25-MHz '030 accelerator, expanded
memory, and a high-speed bard drive.

Keeping the editing process in the digital domain for
as long as possible is also where video editing is mov-
ing. Although the video quality of systems that use digi-

tizing techniques to compress and manipulate the pic-
lure is nol yet up to acceptable standards, il is being
rapidlv refined. Apple's QuickTime Movies, as well as
the Avid, Montage, Einc, and Matrox systems, are ex-
amples of evolving nonlinear and cut-and-pastc edit-
ing options for video producers.

Several of these are used for expensive productions
and TV sitcoms, although their final product is nol ac-
tually video, but a computer list of SMITE numbers —
the EDL (Edit Decision List) — which is used by another
computer/recorder system to assemble a final tape-
based video master. You can do the same for much less
money in your own studio today.

Post Production

The Toaster oilers many of the automated effects you
formerly would have paid for at an expensive on-line
studio. That's one reason this new "middle ground" of
desktop-video studios is thriving. In post production,
the Toaster will serve as your editing switcher, character
generator, and so on. Later, you ma} - decide to include
an additional switcher for even more flexibility.

Next to the Toaster, the most critically important ele-
ment in the desktop-video revolution is a new genera-
tion of edit-system controllers. The recent advances in
these systems is remarkable. Efficient cdit-control soft-
ware now automates what was once die most detailed '

16 October 1992

Finally! True Cinematic Quality Morphing For The Amiga®!

ASDG is not the first to advertise
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Commodore Amiga'. Having seen
the other products, there's obviously
more than one way to define that
term.

To us, "cinematic quality morphing
means these things:

• Morphing must be fast.

In a production environment, time is
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and time-intensive part ofthe production process, sub-
stituting for an entire team of coworkers. Here's how:

1. As you review your production tapes, type your log
notes directly into the edit-system computer, control-
ling the viewing deck with the keyboard and mouse.

2. With a single keystroke, capture SMPTE code
points from the tape segments of your best scenes. The
computer will automatically prim the SMPTE numbers
into the log.

3. Electronically cut and paste the log segments you
want to include in your finished program. Ibilal You
have created your EDL.

4. Tell the computer where you want Toaster wipes,
titles, and framestore effects; it will insert those tran-
sitions into the EDL.

5. Sit back and call for dinner reservations as the com-
puter directs the decks to auto-assemble \ our program.

One ofthe best edit-control tools on any platform is
The Editizer (51995, TAO). It is an A/B-roll graphic
screen editor that controls the Toaster plus six other
edit-system devices. It is a great value, with three
frame-locked SMPTE ETC readers and an LTC time-
code generator built into the control box, making it un-
necessary to pay extra for internal time-code readers
in your decks (although it will work with decks that
have internal LTC or Vl'l'C readers).

It does the logging noted above, and in addition re-
members all Toaster settings and DPS II TBC (see side-
bar) settings for each edit. It has seven GPI (General Pur-
pose Interface) triggers to cue audio decks, laser discs,
and other source equipment. It also allows you to search
your log and EDL list comments by key words or time
code. I've found it to he frame accurate using time code.

The Editizer supports RS422, Sony Control L, or
RS232 serial ports for controlling decks, with an op-
tional adapter unit to control parallel decks — allowing
it to operate nearly every consumer and professional
VCR on the market. The Editizer software runs on a
386 PC clone (PC, SVGA monitor, and 40MB hard
drive— all for $888) with Windows (SI 05). The clone-
box is also handy as a kind of bus extender for the Ami-
ga, providing additional serial ports, card slots, and
power supply for add-on TP>C cards, such as the DPS
II, and the DPS Veclor-Waveforni Monitor card (see
sidebar). You can also save your edit lists and logs on
the PC hard drive, reserving space on the Amiga for
animations and framestores.

AmiLink/VT ($5530, RGB Computers & Video) is a
professional-level A/B editor for the Amiga that can
also talk to the Toaster. It does not have the logging
capability noted above, but it does have a single-frame
controller utility with adjustable frame rales for anima-
tion. It fits into an Amiga PC slot. 'To coordinate the
tape decks, AmiLink uses VLAN nodes (Video Local
Area Network) — which are accurate, but costly at $ 1 1 1 5
each — to talk with up to 1 (3 source VTRs, an additional
switcher, and four record decks in your edit studio.

AmiLink will read VITC and LTC time code if you
alreath' have time-code cards in your decks. Ii allows
you to edit your EDL, and, like The Editizer, it does a

great job talking Toaster — storing your wipes, DVEs,
and CGs in its edit list. It will trigger auto-loading of
the DVI and DV2 framestores, and it allows fading to
effects and key setups.

The MediaPhile (Interactive MicroSystems) line of
video products olTers a logging system that integrates
with the company's low-end edit-control system. Have
a look and appreciate the services this product line of-
fers, but add up what you might actually end up paying
lor the full system and then compare that with other
alternatives. The difficulty inherent in remote infrared
command targetting (decks starting at the same time
or not starting at all) may be a formula for frustration.

Studio Setups

Now, let's examine Figure I to sec how the primary
hardware in a simple post-production studio Tits to-
gether. Your first-level studio equipment appears in
bluish-purple. Litter, you mav wish to include addition-
al pieces of equipment, such as those shown in red.
(Audio equipment has been deleted from this chart for
simpler reading; but see "Anatomy of a MIDI Studio,"
Apr. '92, p. 37, for helpful audio details.)

The first-level studio has a single source VTR, often
called a "cuts-only" system. With the Toaster, its charac-
ter generator, and vour framestore buffers, however, von
can create the impact of multisource dissolves, wipes,
and effects in your productions. "The second-level studio
includes another source \TR (for A/B editing), a graph-
ics camera, and an auxiliary special-effects generator.

The signal from the black-burst generator (upper-left
corner of the diagram) passes through a distribution
amplifier and is fed to the entire system to keep all
video components synchronized. The video output
from each videotape source machine passes through a
time-base corrector (TBC), one for each tape source,
and then into the Toaster inputs. "The Program output
of the Toaster passes into the Master Record VCR. Mon-
itors are connected to the video output of each VCR.
Having test equipment and knowing how to use it is im-
portant. A waveform monitor and vectorscope should
be on line so you can set up your equipment properly
and monitor adjustments made to video signals
through theTBCs.

The Edit Controller is your steering wheel to the sys-
tem, allowing you to control all decks and the switcher
from a single convenient console. SMPTE time-code
readers for each deck and a SMPTE time-code gener-
ator allow you to accurately call up the tape segments
you want to work with. Although not shown here, a
patch bay is useful for organizing your cabling and al-
lowing flexible routing between pieces of equipment
without rccabling everything.

Your production will be both creative and profession-
al ifyou take care to maintain a high-quality signal path
through each piece of equipment in vour studio. The
sidebar "Black Boxes and Other Video Mysteries" will
tell you how. ■

Ritric Hedlund is a Las Angeles-based director who has just
finish ed a 3 7 -pa rt video series entitled Computers , Freedom
& Privacy. She is currently developing a telnnsion series about
humor and creativity in cyberspace. She wislies to thank Gary
Meyer, Don Kashira, Walt Davis Enterprises, and Nigel Red-
man for research assistance. Write to Hedlund c/o Amiga-
World Editorial, 80 Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458.

38 October 1992

DIGITAL TEST TUBE

You don't have to be a biochemist or a "Mr. Wizard" to enjoy cellular

automation programs. With some relatively simple CA code —

like the sample Amiga Basic listings provided here —

yon can evolve representations of all

kinds of natural phenomena.

I ;ill (tic* ways you tan use your Amiga, creating
artificial life forms with a cellular automation
(CA) program is one of the most fascinating,

Few people realize, though, that these types of
programs open a domain of endless possibilities.

With a cellular automation program, you can ,v

transform simple or sophisticated lines of CA
programming code into representations of
biological organisms and ecosystems. You
can mimic the migration of birds,
ants, bees, and bacteria. You can in-
corporate chaos algorithms to
model weather patterns, popula-
tion growth, and the spread of
infectious disease. You can
even form a link to neural
networks and artificial intel-
ligence. Just structure CA
programs thai create and
wire neural network pat-
terns, and they essential-
ly learn by themselves.

To help you get start-
ed, we have included two "
simple Amiga Basic pro-
grams that should provide in-
sights into the programming beast-
ies that otherwise remain bidden in more
complex, compiled, or full-blown applica-
tions. There are also commercially available CA
programs on the market — for instance, CellPro Cell-

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TEST TUBE

ular Automata Art and Animation (S89.95) from
MegageM. (To locate product vendors, see the "Manufactur-
ers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 98.)

Order Out of Chaos

Cellular automation programs vary in levels of sophis-
tication; some are simple, while others are exceedingly
complex. Generally, though, CA programs consist of a
lew simple rules. Complex patterns are not written into
the program; they develop by themselves. When yon
initiate a Tew rules for the computer to quickly repeat,

Not everyone, however,

has an acidic soup ofbromate

ions handy.

the program exhibits striking behavioral patterns that
provide windows of opportunity to study and to model
living systems and artificial intelligence.

Listing 1 uses the text screen to generate a simple,
random cellular automation. The program quickly fills
the screen with two-color characters, then begins to
scroll it upward. Each new line it produces at the bot-
tom of the screen represents a new generation. Pressing
the q key exits the program, while pressing any other
key randomly changes the rules according to which it
produces new generations.

Listing 2 is a bit more complex; it is a self-organizing
program that can exhibit evolving forms and structures
typical of what is known as l he belousov-Zhabolinskii
reaction. That simple chemical experiment, undertaken
some 30 years ago in Russia, led to the discovery and
exploration of self-organizing svstems.

In this experiment, a solution ofbromate ions in a

high acidic medium sits in a shallow dish and spontan-
eously forms centers of chemical activity. Each center
creates expanding patterns of concentric, circular
rings, or in some cases even spirals. As the patterns
grow the)' begin to crash into neighboring patterns.
Soon, the entire surface of the material is organized
into a unique layout. The design then begins to decay
and disappear as secondary reactions impede the pri-
mary one.

The experiment's visual impact 30 years ago was an
unexpected but natural phenomenon. Today, the study
of self-organizing reactions goes be-
yond its roots in chemistry into dis-
ciplines such as physics, cosmology,
and biology. (Some experts believe
that such self-organizing chemical
reactions were a stage in the process
of life's development.)

Not everyone, however, has an
acidic soup of bromate ions handy.
We therefore include Listing 2 so you
can study this phenomenon yourself
with the Amiga. Il has three starting
patterns — spiral, regeneration, and
diffusion — from which to choose.
This program uses a 16x40 section
of the text screen for display, and it considers each
character in the display a cell. Each cell can req'cle
through three states — active, receptive, and quiescent.
The program colors each character cell according to
its present state: red means it is active, white that it is
receptive, and violet that it is quiescent. The rules by
which this cellular automation works are simple. Activ-
ity can spread to a neighboring cell only if that cell is
receptive, and a cell returns to a state of receptiveness
only after a quiescent period. This means that as an ac-
tive cell decays to a receptive cell, it follows this color
pattern: red to violet to white.

The program creates two data arrays — "newen" and
"olden," — that contain the presenl and previous states
of each cell on screen. It uses the data contained in
each array to update and modify the screen display.
The program searches each cell in the olden array, and
wiien it finds a quiescent cell, it changes it to a recep- '

Listing 1. Simple Random Cellular Automation.

' Simple Celluar Automation in AmigaBasic

PRINT CHRS[10|;

' J. lovine

aS = INKEYS

PALETTE 0,0,0,0:PALETTE 1,1,1,1 :PALETTE 2,0,0,0

IF a$ = "q'THEN COLOR 1,0:END

FOR i = 1 TO 8; READ n: code(i) = n:NEXT

IF aS <> "" THEN codechange

DATA 0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0

GOTO beginning

DIM olden(77),newen(77)

codechange:

GOTO start

eg = INT(RND(1)*8t+ 1

begining:

dc = INT(RND(2) * 2)

FOR j = 1 TO 76

code(cg| = dc

rule = (4 " oldentj - 1) + 2 * olden(j) + olden(j + 1)) + 1

GOTO beginning

newen(j) = code(rule|

start:

NEXT

RANDOMIZE

FOR j = 1 TO 76

FOR i = 1 TO 76

COLOR (2-newen[j)),0

olden(i) = !NT[RND[2) * 2|

PRINT CHRSI31);

NEXT

olderilil = newen(](

CLS

NEXT

GOTO beginning

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live one in the newen array. When the program lino's
an active cell, it looks to the adjoining cells to see if ac-
tivity (redness) can spread to any of them. If so, it
changes all receptive cells to active cells in the newen
array.

Next, it decays the original active cell into a quies-
cent period and places it in the newen aria;'. Alter it
has searched the entire olden array, the program dis-
plays the newen array on screen, while simultaneously
copying the newen array into the olden array. When
the display is finished, the program repeats the entire
process.

Although these rules are simple, complex patterns
quickly emerge after a few generations. Because the
program is written entirely in Amiga Basic, though, the
process is slow — the computer takes about ten seconds
to update each screen displav. If von run the program
through a compiler, however, yon expand the screen
section to a full screen. I used the 16x40 matrix screen
to speed up the program. If you work in assembly lan-
guage, the program runs quickly enough so that yon
can use pixels rather than text characters.

Going on Your Own

I wrote this program with three basic seed patterns thai

evolve into more complex geometry. Do not consider
these patterns a restriction, but rather a starling point.
Feel free to change the pattern arrays to whatever you
like. You will be pleasantly surprised by how interesting
this program becomes after yon play with it awhile.

The program uses the following number codes with-
in its arrays to identify- state:

1 =white=receptive
2 =violet=quiescent
3=red=active

Use these numbers in the GOSUB sections to
change the beginning seed patterns, for instance, you
could create a new starting pattern by changing the
numbers in the array or the subprogram "Spiral." To
ensure starting with a clean screen, the program Gils
both arravs with Is before it enters the seed pattern.
You need only determine the starling location of active
and quiescent cells. ■

John lovine is a programmer, hanlwaiv designer, and free-
lance writer who has contributed to several magazines, in-
rlailing Radio Electronics ami Popular Electronics. Write
to him e/o AmigaWorld Editorial, 80 Elm St.. Peterbnrough,
NH 03458.

Listing 2. Self-Organizing Cellular Automation.

REM Self-Organizing Cellular Automation Program

display:

REM John lovine

LOCATE 4,1

DIMolden(721),newen(721)

FOR y = 1 TO 16: PRINT TAB(19);

fig = 1: GOSUB setup

FOR x = 1 TO 40: COLOR newen(x+|y*40)),0

CLS:PRH\IT CHRS|13], " Use Mouse to make selection !"

olden|x+(y*40)) = newen |x+|y*40|)

MENU 1,0,1, "Selection"

PRINT CHRS[31);:NEXT

MENU 1,1,1, "Sprial"

PRINT CHRS|13);:NEXT

MENU 1,2,1, "Regeneration"

GOTO start

MENU 1,3,1, "Diffusion"

MENU 1,4,1, "Exit"

setup:

ON MENU GOSUB selection

PALETTE 0,0,0,0 : PALETTE 1,1,1,1

MENU ON

PALETTE 2,. 8,0,.93 : PALETTE 3,1,.2,.27

WHILE fig

FOR i = 0TO 721:olden{i) = 1;newen(i) = 1: NEXT:RETURN

WEND

'Enter Patterns

GOTO display

spiral: 'Spiral

start:

GOSUB setup

FOR x = 40 TO 680

FOR i = 336 TO 346:newen|il = 3: NEXT

IF oldenlx) = 3 THEN charigearound

newen|307) = 3 :newen|335) = 2

IF oldenlx) = 2 THEN newen(x) = 1

FOR i = 295 TO 306:newen(i) = 2: NEXT

cscan:

fig = 0: RETURN

NEXT

regen: 'Regeneration

GOTO display

GOSUB setup

charigearound:

newen|380) = 3 :newen|381) = 3:newen(300) = 3

newen(x) = 2

newen|301) = 3:newen(339) = 3 :newen(340) = 2

IF olden(x-l) = 1 THEN newenfx-1) = 3

fig = 0: RETURN

IFolden(x + 1) = 1 THEN newen(x+1) = 3

cliff: 'Diffusion

IFolden(x+40) = 1 THEN newen{x+40) = 3

GOSUB setup

IFolden(x+41) = 1 THEN newen(x+41) = 3

newen(340| = 3: fig = 0: RETURN

IF olden(x+39) = 1 THEN newen(x+39) = 3

bye:

IF olden(x-40| ■ 1 THEN newenfx-40) = 3

MENU RESET

IF olden(x-39) = 1 THEN newen(x-39) = 3

END

IF olden(x-41t = 1 THEN newen(x-41) = 3

selection:

GOTO cscan

ON MENU(1) GOSUB spiral,regen,diff,bye

RETURN

42 October l') ( >:

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Small Talk: The

Heard the latest? The newest and smallest Amiga

has been approved for release in the US. After

explori?ig the ins and outs of the Amiga 600,

AmigaWorld's Chief is ready to talk.

By Doug Barney

SINCE ITS RELEASE, the Amiga 500 has been
Commodore's hottest-selling CPU, giving users
multitasking, sound, and great graphics for the
price of a good, used moped. Now the linn
hopes to recreate that success with the all-new Amiga
600, a machine that many observers see as ultimately
replacing the venerable A500. But is the bright white
A600 worthy of assuming the low-end mantle? The an-
swer for Amiga users is yes and no.

The first thing you notice about the new machine is
its exceedingly small form factor, which is 9V:'Xl4 incit-

es — roughly equivalent to Commodore's older
C-64 computer. Don't let the size fool you,
though; the diminutive case hides some real
power: a full Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) and
the new AmigaDOS 2.0. In some ways, it is like
a cheaper, miniaturized version of the Amiga
3000, but, unlike die A3000, which incorpo-
rates the fast Motorola 68030 processor, the
A600 runs on the original 7.16-MHz 68000.
For many applications this is more than ade-
quate, but this chip begins to show its weakness
when doing serious work.

The advantage of the machine's small size
is somewhat diminished by its use of the stan-
dard A500 power supply, that awkward brick-
like thing that lies tinder the desk of most
A500 owners. If four-pound laptops can have
power supplies built in, why not the AfiOO?

The A600 achieves its small size mainly by
dispensing wiib lite numeric keypad. That's fine
by me. Unfortunately, the machine also dis-
penses with the expansion bus, which spawned
countless add-on products for the A500 and
A 100(1, from accelerators to drives to RAM to
PC emulators. Moreover, the A500's A50I slot
has been replaced with the A601 slot, which
uses a different connector, and that's not so fine.
There are more expansion problems inside.
Evervthing on the motherboard is surface mounted,
which means you do not have sockets for internal expan-
sion devices. Internal accelerators and other mother-
board add-ons designed for earlier Amigas will not work
in the A600, and it will be difficult to develop serious up-
grade products for this system. In fact, the only thing
that appears to have a socket is the Kickstart ROM.

With the new ECS graphics modes, a deinterlacer would
be ideal. But enrrem A~>00 deinterlacers will not work, leav-
ing your optional interlaced video to flicker on ad nauseam.
In place of an expansion bus is a PCMCIA connector,

44 October 1992

PHOTOGRAPHED BY EDWARD JUDICE

first seen on CDTV. This port will be used mainly For
delivering applications, storing data, and providing
solid-state RAM. So far, there is little lliat takes advan-
tage of this feature, although Expansion Systems is now
shipping its BASEboard 601. This bare board, which
starts at S29.95, can add 1MB of chip RAM. bringing
the A600's chip-RAM total to 2MB. All told, die A600
can physically address up to eight megabytes of RAM.
Just as this article was going to press, AmigaWorld
learned that Commodore will sell a 386 PC emulator
that fits into the A601 slot. This exciting device could
make the 600 a truly enticing dual-purpose computer.

A Twice-Told Tale

Beginning in September, Commodore plans to sell two
versions of the A600, one based on floppies (5499.99)
and another vidi a built-in 40MB hard drive (S749.99).
(NB: prices and availability dates are subject lo change.)
The hard-drive version uses an IDE, rather than the
more expandable SCSI adapter (onto which you can
daisy-chain devices). Commodore's bard drive uses a sig-
nificant amount of RAM lor buffers and so on, making
the standard 1MB A600 incapable of running applica-
tions that require 1MB of RAM. As a result, the standard
configuration for the hard-drive version is 1.5MB.

Commodore appears to be aiming this machine at the
game-system market. The plan is to bundle the comput-
er with hot games — plus some productivity programs —
and sell it as a hardware/software combination. The stan-
dard floppy version is destined to come packaged with
five pieces of software, including two arcade games
(Ocean's Robocop 3 and Rsygnosis' Shadow of the Beast
3), plus one role-playing adventure (Myth, by System 3).
The two productivity titles will be Domark's MicroText
word processor and Graphic Workshop paint program.

Buyers of the A600HD will get a software lineup that
favors productivity a little more. In addition to the Mi-
croText and Graphic Workshop programs, the hard-
drive-equipped version of the computer will come with
an easy 3-D authoring/design environment oriented to
entertainment applications. The only game per se to
be included is Ocean's PushOver, a puzzle-style game.

Of course, given its serious computing abilities, the
A600 stands head and shoulders above the mote tra-
ditional game machines by Nintendo, Sega, and NEC.
For first-time users, this small, sell-contained A600
should be attractive. Although Commodore has already
established availability through dealers and consumer
channels, the company has its work cut out for it to de-
velop distribution and awareness of the system.

Should you buy an A600? If you need to cart your
system around or have little interest in beefing up

HI

The left side of the machine houses the PCMCIA slot,
which replaces the popular A500 expansion bus.

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The right side of the machine conveniently holds
mouse and joystick ports, much like the A3000.

Despite its small size, the machine contains — as well
as composite out — an RF modulator for hooking to a TV.

your Amiga, it could be ideal. Il could also serve as a
terrific system for the kids, and neophytes are sure to
love the new operating system, which is about as slick
as you'll find in any market. But if you like to push
the limits of your applications, the lack of expandabil-
ity should stop you dead in your tracks. Personally I'd
like to see this very machine with an '030 or '040 pro-
cessor, the old A500 expansion bus, and a self-con-
tained power supply. Then this small talk would speak
up loud and clear. ■

Amiga 600 Specifications

Price:

Connectors:

Video:

S499.99 floppy based

Floppy drive

RF modulator

S749.99 with 40MB hard drive

Mouse

Color composite

CPU: 7.16 68000

Joystick

RGB analog

RAM: 1MB standard

RS-232 serial

7 8- kev keyboard

ROM:512K

Parallel

880K-byte internal floppy

PCMCIA

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How can you be sure your video signal measures up?
Measure your video signals!

By Joel Tessler

BACK IN 1978, I shot and edited my
first color commercial. I submitted the
spot to the local NBC affiliate, only to
find out it was not suitable for broad-
casting. Why? Because the video signal
did not comply with FCC' standards. I
had to reshoot and edit the entire com-
mercial and actually lost money on the
project, so I vowed that I would never
again shoot or edit without using a
waveform monitor to check my signal.

Although color cameras have im-
proved tenfold and the signal-lo-noise
and frame accuracy of VCRs have come
a long way since then, I still get calls
from clients having video trouble, some
of which could be avoided by properly
measuring the video signals with a
waveform monitor and vectorscope.

The advent of NewTek's Video Toast-
er has made video-signal monitoring
critical in desktop environments. With
the addition of a dual-channel time-base
corrector ( I'BC) and its ability to adjust
color saturation, hue, gain, setup, and
other parameters that affect the video
signal, things can get prclty complex.

While blindly making adjustments
can worsen problems, a waveform and
vectorscope help you determine how
the signal is affected and enable you to
achieve higher quality output. Combina-
tion waveform monitor/vectorscope
units are fortunately now available at a
fraction of what they cost in the 1970s.
Two companies — Magni Systems and
Digital Processing Systems (DPS) — have
recently broken ground with new, inex-
pensive waveform/vector combos. Both
models output video information to a
standard composite monitor, obviating
the need for expensive CRTs (those
high-resolution rack-mounted green

screens seen in TV stations). This means
that the rest of us can afford to measure
our own video just like the networks.

I used a Video Toaster .-VB roll edit-
ing system to evaluate both units, and
compared them to high-end wave-
form/vectorscopes set for accuracy. (To
locale the vendors of the products men-
tioned, see the "Mamtfacturers'/Distribu-
tors' Addresses" list on p. 98.)

The Magni Monitor

Magni Systems, well known in the
video industry for its high-quality test
gear, offers a $1795 waveform/vector
combo that fits into a low-profile, 19-
inch rackmounted unit. The unit pro-
vides scores of features and the kind of
flexibility required by complex post-
production facilities, TV and cable
stations, and even transmitter sites.

The Magni Monitor's hardware is
composed of a 19-inch, rack-wide
mountable base unit, a remote control,
a four-inch LCD display, and a separate
power supplv. The base has a green
LED lamp power indicator on the front
panel. The rear panel lias four telco
connectors (the type that are on your
telephone): two for remote use, one for
(he Masni LCD monitor, and the other
for picture. It also accommodates ten
British Nut Connectors (BNCs): one for
waveform, another for picture, and iwo
each for reference and channels A, B,
and C. You can use the connectors in
various ways to (It your studio's needs.

Those new to video may experience
"feature shock" when using a wave-
form/vectorscope lor the first time.
Fortunately, Magni's interface includes
a friendly on-screen menu that displays

its output to both an LCD screen and a
composite monitor.

You access this menu via the handy
remote control, which features 15 but-
tons and a large control knob. On the
left side of the remote is the main-
menu button, along with six "quick
keys" for the most frequently used
functions. When you opt for waveform-
monitor control, the quick keys corre-
spond to variable gain, 2H/1H (in 2H),
FLD1/FLD2 (in 2F) , filters, alarm (on
or off), and reference (internal or ex-
ternal). The quick keys for the vector-
scope arc variable gain (enable or
disable), vectors (75% or 1009c), nor-
mal/+ (PAL) , alarm (on or off), and
reference (internal or external).

The remaining nine buttons control
channel selection, horizontal line dis-
play, field display, horizontal and verti-
cal magnification, and waveform or
vector mode (this also controls magnifi-
cation direction and which function of
the knob is active). The knob provides
adjustment for horizontal and vertical
position, vector phase, and other vari-
ables selected from the menus.

To help you manage all these con-
trols, the manual is packed with expla-
nations about video, plenty of opera-
tions information, and a great glossary.

Monitoring Performance

The Magni Monitor performed well.
Its reference-in allows for timing and
phase comparisons in the studio envi-
ronment, and its vector and waveform
graticules are easy to read. Magnified
mode gives you a clear picture of the
horizontal sync and burst without
straining your eyes; in some cases I
could read a signal from clear across *■

48 October 1992

All photographs are of actual DCTV screens.

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S I I T E

the room. The remote-control unit
makes it easy to access menus and
features. The buttons have a good feel,
and die control knob is solid.

In the edit suite, I was able to check
my phasing, timing, black levels, sync,
and blanking, and to make sure mv
video levels were correct without hav-
ing to fight the hardware.

The Magni Monitor's multichannel
input lets you monitor tip to three
separate channels of composite or
component video. It also allows you to
color-code all three channels on screen.
With the wide acceptance of high-band
Betacam, M-II, Hi8, and SVHS for-
mats, this is a feature whose time has
come. The ability to view Y, B-Y R-Y, or
Y/C is not far short of nirvana for me.

The Magni Monitor also supports
another important feature: color-frame
monitoring. This lets you compare
channel C with A or B, for instance, on
the vectorscope. One problem with
composite waveform/vectorscopes is the
brightness levels of the various display
elements. Magni's solution is a feature
that allows lor separate selectable color
and intensity for backgrounds, gratic-
ules, waveforms, and variable persis-
tence. Another nice feature is the alarm,
which sounds a wanting if the timing or
SC/H phase exceeds the set limits.

Remote-signal monitoring is also
possible with the Magni Monitor. This
means you could leave a modem-con-
nected base unit at a cable station's
head end ten miles from the main
studios. Then, a cable operator could
use a modem-connected remote at the
main studios to control the base unit
and monitor the head-end signals!

Even aside from all the extras, the
Magni Monitor fares well as a general-
purpose video-measurement instru-
ment Unless you're a diehard who will
accept nothing less than the most ex-
treme high-resolution CRT and a zillion
magnification modes, the Magni Moni-
tor can probably fit your application.

The Personal V-Scope

Digital Processing Systems was the first
manufacturer to introduce a TBC on a
single card. Now the company has
managed to combine a waveform mon-
itor and vectorscope on a card that
outputs its signal to a standard com-
posite monitor. This unit does not
require a rack-mounted unit or exter-
nal power supply; it was clearly de-
signed with desktop video in mind.

DPS's Personal V-Scope ($995) plugs
into one of the A2000's or A3000's
IBM slots. After inserting the board,

you must make some internal or exter-
nal serial connections to use the sup-
plied control software. The back of die
card has a serial data-input telco con-
nector, a BNC NTSC video input, an
LED video indicator, a buffered-video
output, a superimpose output, and a
full-time output.

The software gets to your hard drive
through an automatic installation pro-
gram that's easy to use. The software-
control menu lets you select waveform,
vector, overlay, split screen, flat or low-
pass, 1H/2H waveform, superimpose,
trace, trace freeze, variable-trace-rale,
and variable-trace-value modes. A full-
featured software-based test-signal
generator CrSG) is also included.

Personal Use

What stands out the most about this
system is its simplicity and ease of use.
The interface works on a vvhat-you-
cJick-is-what-you-get system, without
the confusion of bothersome pull-down
menus. The split-screen mode allows
for simultaneous composite display of
the vectorscope and waveform monitor
over incoming video, graphics, or both.

When displaying the V-Scope's full-
field color bars from the Video Toaster's
framebufler, I could see that all the
colors registered inside the vector-
scope's boxes, indicating phase accuracy.
The waveform monitor showed the
individual parts of the color-bar signal.

If you already own DPS's Personal
TBC, integration with the Personal V-
Scope is automatic A separate V-Scope
menu that's built into the TBC software
lets you adjust the TBC's parameters
on the fly and immediately sec the
results on the V-Scope's display. One ol
the most obvious advantages I noticed
while editing was the size of the wave-
form/vector display. Even with a 13-
inch monitor, it gave a pretty clear
picture of what was going on with the
video signal. (Both the V-Scope and
Magni Monitor also appear to be com-
patible with I.DEN'sTBC Card and
Digital Creations' Kitchen Sync.)

In the edit suite, the V-Scope per-
formed well, although the lack of an
external reference-in limited my ability
to do comparisons. Still, 1 was able to
gain some crucial information regarding
phasing and liming of the source VCRs.

The TSG software works directly with
the Video Toaster's framebuffer and in
conjunction with the V-Scope. It in-
cludes 32 industry-standard lesi pat-
terns that install automatically through
an easy-to-use utility. Each test pattern
is coded in the manual with a number
and an explanation of its usage. Some

of the uses for the test signals are pic-
ture monitor alignment, video levels,
differential phase/gain, Y/C delay, and
frequency response.

While normally expensive, TSGs are
necessary for getting ;i complete picture
of all the variables in the video signal. I
found the TSG software a great alterna-
tive to traditional tesi generators; the
umliihursi 1 00-1 RE test pattern gave a
clear picture of the frequency response
rates of three TBCs.

I he \ -Scope's manual explains its
usage in clear, concise language, and it
provides plenty of details on video
measuring. With all ils technical infor-
mation, however, it still manages to
address the needs of the novice. The
explanations of the test signals in chap-
ter 6 is in itself a short course in video.
In addition to text, I he manual has an
ample amount of pictorial content.

I would like to see an external refer-
ence video-in built into the Personal V-
Scope, and more magnification for
horizontal sync and burst. But even
with these limitations, the board is a
great buy, what with ils versatility, the
dual display and the TSG software. You
simply will not get this range of features
elsewhere wititoul spending more.

To Measure or Not?

Maybe you have heard thai you don't
need to monitor your signals if you are
not doing broadcast video. Bullfeath-
ers! In some cases, nonbroadcast video
is a higher risk for trouble down the
line. Combining video on tape with
electronically generated graphics can
introduce all kinds of problems, and
without monitoring equipment, you are
operating in the dark. You may not be
able to detect a 20% loss in your video
signal just by looking at your compos-
ite monitor, but by the time you get
down to the fourth generation, you will
be lucky if even 40% of your original
video signal is there.

If you are serious about video, you
should consider buying a waveform
monitor and vectorscope at some
point. Hopefully, you'll do it before you
have a major catastrophe.

While the Magni Monitor is better
suited for more complex posl-produc-
tion work, cable head ends, transmis-
sion sites, and so on, either of these
products will make a big diflerence in
any video studio. ■

Joel Ussier works as u video and animation
consultant to cable stations and networks,
both nationally and internationally. Write
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St., Peterborough, NH 03458.

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#44

♦

A continuing series

of tips, techniques,

and tricks for

creating more

imaginative Amiga

graphics.

By Joel Hagen

"Mining" for
Backgrounds

ANYONE WHO USES the Amiga for
creating video lilies, business graphics,
or multimedia screens soon finds a

need for lots of rich, unobtrusive hack-
grounds. A good background adds
color and style to a text, button, or
information screen without competing
for the user's attention. Marble and
Stone textures are popular, but tend to
be overused.

This column will focus on easy im-
age-processing methods you can use to
explore existing pictures, mining them
for small areas that can be enlarged to
serve as soft-locus backgrounds in 16-
color hi-res, HAM, or 24-bit color. (To
locate the vendors of products mentioned,
see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Ad-
dresses" list on p. 98.)

Enlarging Your Options

The idea is simple. Examine any Ami-
ga picture in your files for small rectan-
gular areas that would be interesting
abstract images if enlarged. If you
don't already have experience in en-
larging brushes in a painl program, try
cutting a bittsh in DeluxePaint (Elec-
tronic Arts) and press Shift-H a few
times — doubling it again and again.
Immediately, however, you will notice a
problem. The individual pixels are
blown up so that the enlarged image is
a blocky mosaic, not at all suitable as
an unobtrusive background.

Imagemaster (Black Belt Systems)
has interesting features that allow you
to enlarge a small section of an image
without producing large, blocky pixels.
It does this through pixel-interpolation
techniques. As a small image is re-
mapped into a larger area, new pixels
are calculated and introduced — pro-
ducing an effect that makes the image
look more like a resolution-indepen-
dent photographic blowup. The soft,
blurred version of the original region is
perfect for backgrounds, and you can
save it at any resolution. This tech-
nique is highly effective in producing
smooth 24-bit files, but it is also superb
for HAM and 16-color hi-res.

Using this process can prove very
beneficial in video work, because many-

Amiga video artists lack 24-bit color
capability — relying instead on the high-
resolution native Amiga mode for crisp
text and titles. It would be virtually
impossible to hand painl the hi-res, 16-
color soft-focus backgrounds that you
can create through enlargement en-
hanced by [magemaster's sophisticated
interpolation and dithering.

'lb liy the technique, load any Amiga
picture into Imagemaster. Press the
Process Panel button, then select Resiz-
ing and Clipping. Choose Stretch Clip,
then Rectangular Area. Drag a box
around a one- or two-inch region of
the screen you wish to enlarge. The
program will present you with an inter-
face that lets you adjust the scale. Peg
the X and Y sliders at +100 or enter
higher values manually. To conserve
memory, select Replace Primary from
ihe buffer-allocation screen thai pops
up. .An enlarged version of your clip
will be rendered to the screen in what-
ever resolution you have selected in the
Display Panel.

The image will have a softer look to
it than if you had simply enlarged the
pixels, but it is not as smooth as it can
become. One way to get a smoother
image is to mine deeper into the new
screen image. Select a small rectangu-
lar area again, and repeat the previous
Steps. Descending two or three levels
into any image will yield a very smooth
gradation of colors within an interest-
ing composition of soft-edged, organic
shapes. The process is reminiscent of
delving deeper and deeper into a
Mandelbrot set in search of interest-
ing form.

If you have the composition you
want at the first level of enlargement,
bul not the total soft-focus effect you
seek, try blurring it. Press the Process
Panel button, then select Geometric
Transformations. Try the Spiral Blur.
You will be asked to define an area of
the image. One of Imagemaster's great
strengths is its ability to let you define a
limited area for any operation. In this

52 October 1992

Simple image-processing techniques can yield some real gems when you need
interesting backgrounds for almost any type of presentation.

case, however, select Entire Image. You
will then be offered a choice of Inwards
or Outwards spiral and a numeric
selling For the extent of the effect

The illustration accompanying this
column shows an Outwards spiral at
level 10. The image will be processed
and rendered to the screen in soft
locus. Save the result by "Rendering Io
File" al whatever settings you choose.
The illustration was rendered as inter-
laced HAM using a dual-random F-S
dither.

More Mining Nuggets

Another way you can smoothly enlarge
in Imagemaster is by linear composi-
tion. Load the original image again
and select Process Panel, then Resizing
and Clipping. This time choose Clip
Region, then Rectangular Area. When
presented with a buffer selection,
choose New .As Secondary — Hold Pri-
marv. This preserves the buffer area of
your original image as a rendering
space. Press the Compose button, then
Linear Compositions. Next, choose
Place With Anti-Alias and Entire Re-
gion, 'the soft-focus enlargement will
render to the screen. Mine for small
regions in two or three steps for cumu-
lative smoothing,

A dramatic example of the usefulness
ol this technique is to apply it to high-
resolution photographic images such as
the NASA Mars photos in Virtual Real-
ity Laboratories' Space Disks series. For
a presentation, I can create a zoom on a
crater in the Nilosyrlis image that
would otherwise be a useless pixel
blowup. You have to make this sort of
comparison yourself to really appreciate
the dramatic difference.

Experiment with other methods of
producing soft-focus backgrounds. If
you are using DCTV (Digital Crea-
tions), try turning on Smooth Clips in
the Options Panel. Clip a small area of
an image, press the Size gadget, and
then drag the clip out to full screen.
Mine smaller regions of ibis image one
or two times, and you should come up
with some great backgrounds. In Art

Department Professional (ASDC), you
can quickly create smooth backgrounds
by selecting Backdrop from the Load
requester, adjusting the four corner
colors, and then executing a render.
The sophisticated dithering in Im-
agemaster and AD Pro is the key to
rendering smooth screens, even when
you limit yourself to 16 colors. Experi-
ment with dither on and off to see the
amazing difference. If you have a 2-1-
bit display or an enhanced color device
like DCTV or HAM-E (Black Belt
Systems), the methods outlined here
vield superb results that can be a good
visual break from standard marble
backgrounds. ■

Joel Hagen's credits unhide work in art,
astronomy, science fiction, and software
development. Write to him al 10512
Sawyer, Oakdale, CA 95361. Please
include a Stamped, self-addressed envelope
for a reply.

The sott background in the
illustration above is an
enlargement of the area In
the black box on the inset
HAM image. Techniques in

naster prevented the
usual look of blocky pixels
that one associates with an
enlarged bitmap.

AmigaWorid ! 3

R E V I e vv s

From p. 24.

ence is an optical positioning track that is
burned into the media with a laser, allow-
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read/write heads. Although they store as
much as small hard drives, these disks use
basically the same media as high-density
floppies, meaning that they can't match
hard-drive speeds and are subject to the
same media failures as ordinair floppies.

No Bigger Than a Bread Box

Both of these drives come in internal
and external versions. The internal flop-
tical is the same size as a normal floppy
drive and can be mounted in either the
second floppy drive bay of an A2000 or
A3000 or, with the proper mounting kit,
in an A2000's or ASOOOTs 5'A-inch bay.

As for the optical drive, it is the same
width as a S'/i-inch floppy, but about 7s
of an inch taller, so that it can be mount-
ed only in an A2000's or ASOOOTs 5 l A-
inch drive bay. For each drive, 1 tested
the external versions, which come com-
plete with metal case, power supply, and
fan. The external floptical measures
5x7'/*x2'/s inches, while the external op-
tical drive is roughly the size and shape
of a one-pound loaf of bread.

The hardware and software installation
procedures are exactly the same as for
any other SCSI hard drive, and a push-
button switch makes it easy to set the
SCSI drive ID number. Unfortunately,
this switch was unplugged on the floptical
I tested, so the ID remained at zero, at
any setting selected. However, DMI tech-
nical support quickly solved the problem.

DMI does not include any formatting
software, because such software comes
with the required SCSI host controller.
The company states that the drives were
tested and work well with SCSI controllers
from Commodore, Great Valley Products,
Interactive Video Systems, ICD, Supra.
Xetec, Nexus, and Expansion Systems.
The manual does, however, provide illus-
trated step-by-step instructions for low-
level formatting and partitioning of the
drive using Commodore's HDToolBox
program. Although it isn't mentioned
anywhere in DMI's or Commodore's
manuals, you can use HDToolBox with
other controllers, as long as they follow
the Rigid Disk Block standard.

DMI states that you must low-level for-
mat the disks before use, but this step
doesn't perform any useful function with
SCSI devices. In fact, I performed a low-
level format on a floptical disk, rebooted,
and found all of my data still intact.

Removable media drives have some
properties that are different from fixed
hard drives. Most SCSI controllers allow
you to remove and replace disks during

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floppy drive, as long as the disks are all
partitioned exactly the same way. Al-
though the DMI manual states that au-
tomatic disk-change recognition requires
AmigaDOS 2.0, it actually depends en-
tirely on the SCSI controller. Most of
them support removable-media drives,
but older boards may require an updated
EPROM chip.

You can boot from removable drives,
but il you plan to use them as your only
hard drive, you'll have to include the
Workbench files on every disk. A better
plan is to have a small, fixed hard drive
for your Workbench volume and use the
removable-media drives to expand your
storage capabilities.

Removable-media drives are also
handy for backing up large, conventional
hard drives (five or six llopticals or one
optica] vs. over 10(1 floppies Cora L05MB
hard drive). For this reason, DMI in-
cludes a copy of Quarterback 4.8 with the
floptical. Removable-media drives can
also provide inexpensive hard-drive stor-
age for emulators. Once you have remov-
able-media, you can add IBM or Macin-
tosh hard-drive capability for the price of
a new disk and some driver software.

Although DMI's documentation fails
to mention it. the floptical drive has an-
other very important capability. With
Consultron's CrossDOS file system, it can
lead and write ordinaiy 720K or 1 . 11 M B
IBM floppy disks. That makes it the only
.Amiga drive currently available that you
can use to transport files between an
Amiga and a PC using standard high-
density S'/s-inch disks, or between an
Amiga and a Mac using the proper soft-
ware drivers. Unfortunately, because of
its rigid orientation towards IBM Hop-
pies, the floptical is not able to read and
write normal 880K Amiga floppies.

Don't Judge a Disk by Its Case

With respect to its operation, the flopti-
cal drive is a lot like a giant floppy — it

even makes the same noises. Klopticals,
however, in addition to storing over 20
limes the data of a regular floppy, are
three to five times faster. Because the me-
dia is very similar to that of a regular
floppy, it shares both its relative's advan-
tages and disadvantages. The disks are
easily stored and transported and re-
quire no special handling, but they are
subject to the same surface defects as
regular floppies. Of the three disks I
used, one failed completely alter a few
days (DMI promptly replaced it) and an-
other developed read/write errors (I
mapped them out and lost only 20K or
so of storage).

In time, the disk reliability of these
devices should increase, and prices (cur-
rently S20 each) should diminish. By
the time you read this, 3M and Maxell
are both expected to ship floptical disks,
and they predict that prices will fall to
under S10 within a few months, bring-
ing the cost per megabyte of storage to
under 50 cents. Based as it is on very
inexpensive floppy technology, the flop-
tical drive could well become one of
the most cost-effective and convenient
mass-storage options.

The optical drive sits at the other end
of the removable-media spectrum. It is
among the fastest, highest-capacity, and
most expensive of these drives. Al-
though the initial cost of the S'/s-inch
optical drive is three times that of the
floptical, il is nowhere nearly as high as
the price of the a'Ai-inch optical units,
which run over $3000. Moreover, the in-
cremental cost per megabyte of storage
is very low, as each 121. MB cartridge
costs only about S70. If you plan to
eventually store more than a gigabyte of
data, the total cost of the drive and me-
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movable drive such as Syquest's. If voir
plan to store three or four gigabytes, the
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The floptical and optical drives from
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Converts scanned documents
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Amain complaint about the Amiga is
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Migraph OCR is quieting the critics by
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idea behind OCR is for a computer to
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typed forms or spreadsheet data.

A prerequisite for OCR software is the
ability to accept scanned documents.
Migraph OCR directly supports Mi-
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The indexed manual provides sugges-
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scanners so as to achieve optimum re-
sults. These are quite welcome, as Mi-
graph OCR has no way of seaming to-
gether the several passes required by
hand scanners; you must process each
pass as individual input. You can, how-
ever, append one completed ASCII text
file to another, thus creating a complete
file of your document.

Learn your ABCs

A major feature for OCR software is the
ability to recognize and learn new 7 type
faces and styles. For character recogni-
tion, Migraph OCR uses Omnifont tech-
nology, the current state of the art, which
identifies characters by matching math-
ematical patterns. The software conies
prelrained with Artisan, Bookman,
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typefaces that round out the standard 35
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and ZapfChancery, although my tests
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quite good.

Migraph OCR allows you lo analyze
the document interactively or automati-
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nized characters. You then confirm the
guess, delete whatever is incorrect, and
enter the proper characters; or you train
the software via the mouse or function
keys. The training option stores the pat-
tern in a dictionary that the program can
use later on with similar documents. (Mi-
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tionaries for each type of document you
regularly encounter.)

The learning process of Migraph OCR
is good, and, following training, the
program's accuracy is excellent. Migraph
OCR also automatically starts the text

editor of your choice when the conver-
sion is complete, and it lets von save your
preferences for the editor, text file.and
dictionary.

Migraph OCR provides tools (rectan-
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on a document that should be analyzed
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shapes. I he areas are analyzed in the or-
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their sizes.

Unfortunately, the areas cannot be
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similar format in a later session. Nor is
there an ARexx port or anv other means
to batch multiple documents.

The program provides three zoom lev-
els (full page, 1007c, and 200 r /r) and an
icon locator for easy movement on the
page. While this is helpful, 100% and
200% are still too close if you scan your
document at the recommended 300 dpi.

Linguistic Lexicons

Migraph OCR can recognize propor-
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Italic fonts, but slows down ill the pro-
cess. It also works reliably only on font
sizes of 10-18 points. The company
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scanned at 400 dpi, but my results with
this were poor.

Overall, Migraph OCR is generally ac-
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current state-of-the-art OCR software au-
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and graphics; handles multiple columns;
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to save the graphic areas; provides better
controls over scanning (such as contrast);
batch processes in automatic mode; and
saves text in popular word-processing
and database formats. These are the ar-
eas that make the idea of OCR very ap-
pealing in business. While such features
are not yet available on the Amiga, I
hope that Migraph keeps up the good
work and adds more to their offering.
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Hard-drive installable.
Not copy protected.
2.0 compatible.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: Video Toaster

system, ARexx.
Recommended system: Same.

Basic slide-show creation.

TRexx Professional

KludgeCode Software, S1 29.95

ToastMaster

Byrd's Eye Software, $149.95.

Toaster Toolkit

The Byte Factory, S1 50

Hard-drive installable.
Not copy protected.
2.0 compatible.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: Video Toaster

system, ARexx.
Recommended system: Same.

Remote control of Toaster features.

If you've avoided learning to control
NewTek's Video Toaster with ARexx,
relax! ScriptGen, Toaster Toolkit, Toast-
Master, and TRexx Pro create such scripts
automatically, even for Toaster 2.0.

A no-frills utility, Scriptgen builds ba-
sic slide shows from framestores, Toast-
erCG pages, and the Switcher's wipes. It
asks you a series of questions, then com-
piles an ARexx script using the answers.
You can request each framestore,
keyframe (CG), or overlaid CG page to
appear on screen automatically at one of
three standard Switcher speeds or a GPI
trigger command, and to display for a
specified time. Command default set-
tings speed up the process, but I wish
they were user-definable. You can play
the resulting standard ARexx scripts
from a CLI or the Toaster.remote utility.
Although it does not allow access to most
of the Switcher's features, Scriptgen is
easy to use and industrious enough for
most jobs.

The remaining three programs share
a similar look and feel. A graphical in-
terface represents the Switcher screen,
and you click on the appropriate but-
tons to generate script commands. A
separate window displays the script for
editing.

Including English translations of the
ARexx commands in its large script win-
dow, TRexx Professional has the best in-
terface of the bunch. You can cut, copy,
paste, insert, and delete among six active
scripts, and even preview the results,
Scripts can access ToasterPaint, Light-
Wave, ToasterCG, the serial port, Amiga-
DOS, and Workbench. The buttons are
large and well arranged, and the script-
creation procedure is simple.

ToastMaster opens a screen onto
Workbench, setting its own color scheme
but inheriting Workbench's resolution.
(Reading the Switcher simulation but-
tons in interlace mode is tough.) The
layout is not very well thought out: The
script window is too small; editing takes
place either within the program or in a
separate text editor (which is not hot-
linked to the active script window); and
controls are split between buttons and
menus. Unlike the other programs,
however, ToastMaster offers full control
of the Toaster's genlock utility and lets
you create and insert Custom FX, short
sequences that are treated as one com-
mand, into a script.

The Toaster Toolkit is a collection of
three utilities: Toaster Sequence Editor,
Toaster Project Editor, and Framestore
Compressor. Tire last is self-explanatory;
however, when I tried to compress direc-
tories with more than 50 files, I received
checksum errors and corrupted files. The
Project Editor allows you to rearrange
and delete effects from Toaster Projects,
alter their speeds, and customize each
Project to your work style. Smaller Pro-
jects load taster and take up less RAM.
Toaster Sequence Editor (TSE) has all the
features necessary to control the Toaster,
generating scripts in either ARexx or
TSE's compressed format. Unfortunately,
you can load only TSE-format scripts.
Screen and button design is comfortable,
but the script window is quite small,
showing only eight lines.

TRexx Professional creates ARexx
scripts for the Video Toaster and trans-
lates them for you.

.All four of these programs perform as
promised. For straightforward jobs,
Scriptgen is a quick and easv solution, but
for more complex projects that require
control of man)' Toaster aspects, the win-
ner is TRexx Professional. Its easy-to-use
interface, script display, and editing fea-
tures edge out the others by a nose.

— Michael Hanish

Transporter

Amazing Computers, S249.95

Hard-drive installable.
Not copy protected.
2.0 compatible.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: 1MB RAM,

two floppy drives.
Recommended system: 3MB

of RAM, hard drive.

Graphic format conversion and single
framing to tape.

If you're tired of such repetitive graphics
operations as converting formats, sav-
ing single frames to tape, and grabbing
multiple screens, Transporter brings the
cure — automation. Working with most of
the popular graphic software, display de-
vices, and single-frame controllers, Trans-
porter allows you to get the most out of
your equipment with the least effort.

To set up Transporter, you must edit a
conftg file, which tells the program the
type of single-frame controller you're us-
ing, the initialization string, where to
send converted files, and the serial-port
settings. Should vour system change, you
can later update the file within Trans-
porter. The small but well-written man-
ual answers most questions.

Going Through the Changes

The heart of Transporter is its script
screen. This scripting interface is the ba-
sis for all conversions and image man-
ipulation performed, and it makes the
program simple to use. You call up the
directory you want and click on the files
(or range of files) you wish to transport;
then choose the function you want (file
conversion, animation disassembly, sin-
gle-frame animation to tape, and so on),
and click on accept.

Changing large numbers of files from
one graphics format to another is a
breeze. The program provides several
different conversion programs, including
RGB to DCTV, Framestore to RGB,
Sculpt 4D to IFF, RGB to HAM, RGB to
embossed, RGB to line art, RGB to
] PEG. and JPEG to RGB. Transporter is
also compatible with ARexx programs, so i

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and single-frame controllers.

complicated commands created in a text
editor or editing together different parts
of an animation.

Building or ripping apart an OPT- 5
Anim is equally simple, as is single-
framing your animation to tape. Simply
choose the frames you want to record
and in what order, click on the accept
gadget and you're off. Transporter sup-
ports some of the most popular single-
frame controllers, including VLAN
(VideoMedia), BCD 2000A and 5000,
MINIVAS (Lyon-Lamb), and DQ-TACO
(Diaqtiesl). It also supports Geodesic
Publications' Air-Link infrared con-
troller, which lets you to use a standard
consumer VCR to record your anima-
tions to tape. The results are not frame-
accurate, but it's a nice feature if you
can't afford a frame-accurate VCR.

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Transporter rounds out its video reper-
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photography, and insert editing. The
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shuttle, and jog. Currently, however,
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If you deal with large numbers of
graphics images or with other artists
working in different file formats, Trans-
porter can be a lifesaver. It gets the
brainless, labor-intensive work done,
leaving you available to tackle more im-
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StarsFX

MultimediaFX

SpectrumFX/

VocoderFX

Pacific Digital, $49,95 each.

Hard-drive installable.

Not copy protected.

2.0 compatible.

Accelerator compatible.

Minimum system: 512K.RAM
(Stars, Spectrum); 1MB (Multi-
media, Vocoder).

Recommended system: 2MB RAM.

Audio and visual effects
for hobbyists and studios.

Need some off-the-wall special effects?
StarsFX, MultimediaFX, and Spec-
trumFXA'ocoderFX offer unique sound
and graphic tricks.

StarsFX generates an overscanned star
field that's backed by stereo spaceship
sounds. As you steer the mouse, the stars
and sound sweep left or right. It's a per-
fect background for science-Fiction
videos — just genlock in a spaceship. You
can even customize star fields, save pre-
sets, and import IFF sounds.

MultimediaFX combines 32 frames of
1 6-color lo-res animation (quarter-screen
size) with four channels of sampled
sound. You can manipulate the sound
and animation via on-screen control pan-
els or keyboard presets to produce any-
thing from mood music for a horror film
to annoyed neighbors. The F2 key blanks
out the control panel, so you can send the
animation to videotape.

SpectrumFX transforms a sound sam-
ple into a 3-D image. You can then alter
the sound (which in turn alters the pic-
ture) and change the viewing angle. Save
the images as a sequence of IFF files for
an interesting, abstract 3-D animation.

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FX takes two samples and splices them
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horn honking and a man yelling "Road-

SpectrumFX creates a 3-D image from a
sound sample.

hog," and VocoderFX gives you a talking
car horn. Until now such expensive ef-
fects were available only to big studios.
My one gripe is that all documenta-
tion is provided on disk, instead of in
manuals. Otherwise, these are powerful
tools at bargain prices.

— Gene Hamm

Video Music Box

Digital Expressions, S109

Hard-drive installable.

Not copy protected.

Not 2.0 compatible.

Accelerator compatible.

Minimum system: 1MB RAM.

Recommended system: 3MB
RAM, hard drive, MIDI inter-
face and sound modules, ex-
ternal amplifier and speakers.

Beginner's sound-track generator
for video or multimedia.

In this age of shortcuts, tools for inexpe-
rienced users make it possible to pro-
duce complex results with little technical
knowledge. The latest of these is Video
Music Box (VMB), a utility program
aimed at aiding sound-track composition
for multimedia and video projects. The
spirit is willing, but the code is weak.

VMB generates musical sequences in
either SMUS or MIDI format from styles
and chord progressions. Styles are form-
and-feel templates that produce — more
or less — certain genres of music (blues,
jazz, rock, and so on) by following the
musical outlines of the designated chord
progression. You can then combine up to
five of these short riffs into sound tracks
for longer pieces, controlling the length,
volume, and instrumentation of each.
Styles, progressions, sequences, and
sound tracks can all be edited, as well.
You can create new styles with an in-

cluded utility that converts a SMUS or
MIDI sequence of up to 12 measures
into a style template. The system is quite
flexible, and it gives you many genera-
tion options. With experimentation, you
can produce some interesting variations.
The fact, however, that only five of these
can be put together into a sound track
needlessly limits the music's scope and
movement. You can work around this by
exporting sound tracks to an external
sequencing program for editing and
combination.

Editing style and sound-track note
data is a simple matter. Each of the four

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Video Music Box's sound-track parame-
ters control screen lets you play and
alter your music.

parts is color coded, and you enter or al-
ter note-pitch and duration data by click-
ing and dragging. The cursor location
shows precise time and pitch, so the sys-
tem works quite well for what it does.

The playback controls seem quirky un-
der 2.0 on A2000s, both from the pre-
view panel and the edit screens. The pre-
view panel should allow for quick and
easy playback of a sequence or sound
track, but this works only after you de-
press the play button and hold down one
of the mouse buttons. The Play Screen
menu item seems to have no effect.
(Even the clear and thorough manual
was no help here.) Without being able to
hear edits as they are done, I found this
whole area of the program useless, even
though it is well implemented. Merciful-
ly, it appears to work fine under 1.3.

Unfortunately, I have to rate Video
Music Box with a "Not Ready for Prime
Tune" status. Beginners will find it an in-
teresting and simple way to generate
background pieces of very limited com-
plexity, but will soon run up against the
program's limitations. The biggest over-
all problem is a shortage of the features
necessary to generate music that moves
and changes with expression. Video Mu-
sic Box is on its way, but needs much
more depth to be workable.

— By Michael Hanish ■

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Global Effect

By Jeff James

IMAGINE A GAME combining an environmentally-conscious
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what Global Effect {Millennium/Electronic Arts. S49.95) is all
about.

In it, you're a city planner, environmental scientist, and mil-
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or rule a world) present different challenges (military, econom-
ic, or environmental), a central theme of environmental re-
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phenomena. When your opponent's push develops into a mil-
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an antimissile defense system. All of these features are onlv a

Play city planner, environmentalist, and military commander in
Global Effect.

click away, thanks to Global Effect's polished playing interface.
The program is filled with other amenities, including hard-
drive support, no on-disk copy protection, support for two hu-
man players (via serial link), and a "snooze" option that pauses
the game and returns to Workbench. Global Effect needs one
megabyte of RAM to operate, and it runs flawlessly under Ami-
ga DOS 1.3 and 2.04.

Continued on p. 78.

Okay, now where were we? Oh,
yes. ..just about halfway through
Out of This World {Interplay, S59.95)
and next to a rather deep pool of
water with a new code: ICAH.

Don't stand there waiting for the
pool to divide. You have a little
sabotage to attend to at the bottom.
Dive right in, and bear left at the bot-
tom of the main shaft. Your air supply
is limited, so be quick about it — no
detours, OK? — and use the air pocket
atop the second up shaft on the left
for a breather. Then head down two
levels, bear right, and when the op-
portunity comes to hop out of the
water, take it. Nail the power line,
and head back the way you came.
Great. You've earned the code F1EI.

Exit the pool to the left; things
aren't quite done on this side. Head
up — through one of those odd tele-
port floors we've been seeing — and
left again, and give the guard what-
for. Pretty straightforward.

CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson

Heading right again puts you in
a tittle puzzle some folks have been
having trouble solving. There's a set
of automatic doors here, with a fire-
ball-chucking guard on the other
side, and let's just say he doesn't
want to be your best friend.

Here's the trick: Set up a shield
to the left side of the doors. Now
step forward just enough to trigger
the doors open and for the guard to
unload his hot cargo, and immedi-
ately step back to the left behind
the protection of your shield. The
doors will close, and the fireballs
will bounce back and fry the guard
but good. Well, it's his own fault,
isn't it? You can now head right,
where you'lt need to btast through
the doors, and then right and up
again. (Take the opportunity here to
recharge your pistol.)

Down and to the right from the
recharging chamber, you'll come
upon another rather neat puzzte:
three large glass balls reflecting a
guard in the chamber below, (Nope,
no new code words yet.) When you
see and hear the guard stop, drop to
one knee and fire on the largest of
the glass balls. It'll fall and flatten
him. Be careful: There's only one
shot here, and if you miss, you'll
only get the guard ticked off. (If
you're successful, you'll get to see
your handiwork close up in a bit.)
Head back to the left, then down
and right, swim across the pool, and
keep going. All hell is about to break
loose. (But at least you've picked up
another code word: LAUD.)

Maybe that should have been
SCALD, because when you drop
down one level, you'll find you've

gone from the frying pan into the
fire. Don't miss a beat here: Run to
the right, blast your way through
the door, and keep running. It's your
only protection. (Fighting is utterly
fruitless.) The close-call quality of
these scenes is a lot of fun.

Gulp! A dead-end? Nobody said
anything about a dead-end. And the
guards are coming. MOMMY!

Well, you've probably noticed the
trap door in the ceiling. Out of your
reach currently, but not with a little
boost. What you need to do is wait
around for just that little boost: Po-
sition yourself right under the door,
set up a shield to your left, and keep
reinforcing it until the trap door
opens and you're hauled up to safe-
ty. Hey, it's your cage-buddy, return-
ing the favor from your chandelier
dropping! Hop over the open door
and enter the insect-head-as-tank
that's waiting to drive to freedom.
Continued on p. 78.

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W'l I EN 1 [IE Gl .EAM wore ofl die animated spe< tai le I ii.n was
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tle Haw. Tbe gameplay was limited: You simplv bad to bit the
firebutton or nudge the joystick in the right direction at the
light time. Fun though DL and its sequels were, they didn't re-
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shootout in the Berlin railway station to a sword fight with a
mummy in Egypt to a final fists 'n' knife light in Max's Dooms-
day lower.

Sounds familiai; right? Sure enough, Guy Spy is very much a
descendant of the quartet of Dragon's Lairs and Space Aces that
preceded it — in ways good and bad. The animation recalls the
fluidity of the earlier games based on the work of animator Don
Bluth. The graphics are dark and moody. The music is superb.

There's certainly more variety and challenge in the game-
play here than in your average Space Ace. There's no preor-
dained correct path except skillful play; in that station se-
quence, Guy can sidestep, roll, or aim and open fire.

But while he's more fully under the player's control, the
range of action is still rather limited: fighting (albeit with mul-

Guy Spy is your name; counterespionage is your game.

tiple weapons), dodging, and maze-exploring in various com-
binations — all arcadish tasks familiar from the earlier games.
There's no real interaction with the environment other than
using it as cover, and there are no alternate paths. (Success is
one scenario leads straight into tbe next,) The game is a step
in tbe right direction, but hardly the "breakthrough in adven-
ture gaming" claimed on the box.

In some respects, it's just standing still. The four disks can't
be installed on hard disk or even backed up within the Ami-
gaDOS environment. You have to play with the originals (and
a save disk). At the same time that ReadySoft is tipping plav-
abililv with one hand, it seems to be sacrificing it with tbe other.
(A ReadySoft representative did reveal plans to make future re-
leases hard-drive installable.)

And the title screens are — ackl phhhpt! — among the plug-
ugliest I've seen on any Amiga game from a company with
ReadySoft's reputation. Of course, they're just title screens, but
they don't exactly put you in the mood for anything beyond
tbe ait-bv-the-vard show at the local motel.

This isn't a slam. I'm just closing the door on Guy's toes a
little hard. If the earlier games captured your heart and wrist,

Continued on p. 82.

CRIB NOTES

From p. 74.

This is freedom? It's a change of
pace, anyway — the perspective
switching to an exterior shot of the
insect head in some sort of Colosse-
um under fire from every direction
and an inset of your hand roaming
over a set of controls. Which are ut-
terly foreign to you. Great.

Actually, this is fairly simple stuff.
You just need to summon the batch
of controls that includes the option
to fire the escape pods (the only
way out of here I . To do so, you'll
need to push the lower of the two
buttons on the initial panel (which
calls up another panel), then the
lowest and left-most button (which
calls up yet another array), and fi-
nally the top-left button. Whoosh.

You're gone. Roll credits, right?

Urn, no, not quite yet, though
you do now have a new code word
(LFEK) to make life a bit easier. The
pod crashes into what appears to be
a harem, and it's definitely scared
'em. The naked ladies, that is, who
scatter. The guards just go about
their usual business of immolating
you with extreme prejudice. You'll
want to run right one screen, set up
a shield to the right, and concen-
trate your fire on the guards to the
right — reinforcing the shield every
few shots. (Happily, you're immune
to fire from the left.) After you've
downed four guards, you'll be able
to run right, where your large friend
shows up again. Almost there.

Almost. The walkway gets shot
out from under you along the way.

and you fall for it. Fortunately,
someone catches you. Unfortunate-
ly, it's a guard, Fortunately, he
doesn't kill you. Unfortunately, he
cripples you. Fortunately, your
friend shows up again and starts to
fight with the guard. Unfortunately,
the guard beats htm. And, fortu-
nately, you've been smart enough
to crawl over to the levers at the
right side of the screen — and to
hit one when the returning guard
reaches the middle of the screen.
Haven't you? The resulting laser
blast from the device on the ceiling
removes the problem nicely, don't
you think?

Another puil of a lever opens an
exit in the ceiling. From here, you
shouldn't have much trouble find-
ing your way to the closing anima-

tion — and an oblique reference to a
sequel. Code word: Nice work.

I'd planned to devote about half
this column to getting started in
Origin's Ultima VI: The False
Prophet. [That's me, all right.) We're
out of space, so we'll do it next
time, when the Avatar himself will
visit Crib Motes for an up-close-and-
personal interview.

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"Is it OK it I open the little metal door
in the disk and rub my greasy fingers
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me at 25 Belmont Ave., Madison. NJ
07940. I can also be reached on line
atPETEROO on GEnie and Portal,
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FORGING THE REVOLUTIONARY fervor of early 1 9th-cen-
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diced their way through Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, and
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579

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Databases

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Video & Presentation

Word Processors &
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Final Copy 559

Page Stream 22 S169

Pelican Press $62

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Professional Page 3.0 $179

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Gl Cordless Mouse 575

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Supra Modems

24XEMornal $09

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connect you r Amiga to a stereo amplifier system with big bookshell or floor speakers. Using the
amplifier and big speaker approach gave you pretty good sound, but had its own problems: not
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interference with your monitor's display. What really makes the ACS3000 different, though, is the
compact subwoofer that can be hidden anywhere. The subwooler adds the booming bass that
makes the speaker system sound like one live limes its size, and. because your ears can't
localize where the bass is coming from, you can hide Ihe subwoofer out of sight! When you
connect your Amiga to Ihe ACS300, you'll find out why we think it really is Ihe ultimate speaker
system for computers!

ACS300 Computer Speaker System Cl 1 743 299.00

Amiga Adapter C12055 7.99

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AMIGA 500 COMPUTER.

Includes A500 computer with built-in keyboard and floppy disk drive, power supply, mouse,

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Amiga 500 Bonus Pack w/ Lemmings C10204 339.95

AMIGA 500 POWER PACK.

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Amiga 500 Bonus Pack w/ Lemmings K10S75 399.95

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V09: 24-BH - Contains Ron024 winch allows you to prpot Toaster generated

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VOT: SiarTrek Objects - Contains ihe USS Reliant. NCC-17Q1D {the

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V06: Modelling Ob|ecls - Contains 20 wectcr objects in Imagine lormat

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V05: Modelling - Vertex allows you lo create 30 objects without using the

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V03: Image UUIs - lei VideoToolsOnTap let you tap into the video power of

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FD81: SupoiGames- Some ot frw best games' -Donkey Kong is boiler than

the ongipnat with an e.«rr5 tevo" Frantic Freddie and TrailBlazer are bolh

fastpased arcade games Mad Bomber is the classic game of "Kaboom"

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FD80: Technoban ■ if you like logic puzzles. Ims disk is lor you J Create your

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Requires Far Agnus (1 MB of Chip memory].

FDT9: Addama Family Quiz * They're delightfully creepy and spooky and

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FD7&: Potpourri - LoiNan is a great Ultima-type adventure game w th great

graphics. Rocky is a remake of the classic Bouldcrdash

FD77: Arcade Serial Galaga'92 is a done of rhe arcade game of the same

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it's better than the onginnal! Pharaohs Curse is a clone of the original C64

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board game-conquer or be conquered 1 Gataga requires 65020+

FD76: Catacomb is a lull graphic dungeon adventure game with beaulilul

graphics and a very slick icon'mouse driven interface

FD75: Arcade Series Descender is a clone ol the classic arcade game

Tempest": complete with vectorized graphics. Tans is Ihe classic bailie ol

trajectories and inertia between two I an ks— incredibly well done 1 Search is a

maze game untiko any other— included is a level editor too. [Tan* requires 1

mog chip memory-Fat Agnus)

FD74: Arcade Series ■ RingWar Is an "Oul&r Limits" clone with vectorized

graphics. MotherLode Is a p Lcde Runner" clone with 50 levelsl In BlitzTanks.

they're coming at ycu from all drreclionsll Gal) In air strikes and use your

heavy artillery lo survive!

FD73: Arcade Series Intruder AJwti is a MULTl-level Borsork" clone.

Fealuros smooth gamepiay. gru?ii graphics S digitized sound I'*.

FD72: Sword ol the Wcrlock This is a domo version ol a great public

domain graphic dungeon ndvemuro game The advenlure spans three

diskotles and allows two players to go adventuring. The game has a 'Bards

Tale' leol to it. Three dish set. counts as 2 Requires t meg ol SAM and 2

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FD71A6B: Star Trek: TNG Trivia Challenge ■ 5o you ihink you know Trie

Neat Generation, huh? Complete with fantastic sampled sounds and digitized

images. Ihis game even looks and sounds like a genuine Star Trek terminal!

VE fiv thorough una ramp' etc ' Counts as 2 dis^s

FD70: SpnceGames ■ Contains AmiGo'ds. ^Iinallyk an Asteroids game that

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FD6B: Potpourri - Eternal Rome is a strategic simulation of the Homan
Empire including military, diplomatic, political, economic and social factors.
Lord of Hosts is a board strategy game for 2 players. In Moonshine,, you've
got to get the hootch across rhe state line — a great rolling, scrolling driving
game 1

FD67: Arcade Includes Llamatron a well done 'Roboiror' done. Hate is a
"lermliE* commercial grada Znxtvr. clone Willi multiple ovels/worlds and
smoolh diagonal SCielling , a 101

FD64: Games - Wizzy s Quest ■ a 'great' 50 level game with great graphics,.
Cubus - a 3-dimensional Tetns type game [rotate and move in 3 d mansions}
Husker Du - Cobrs and pattern rather than shape in this Tetns-esque gam^
5 screens and 3 levels of difficulty Requires Fat Agnus (l Meg of Chip)
FD62: PomPom Gunner. An extremely smooth and well done World War II
gunner simulation. Requires! megabyte ot memory.

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mcludes V/rieel ol Fcrture

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give you the feel of piloting a 30 - 40 foot tall, fire bFeathmg. earth shaking
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Mutants— a smalt version, ol the same arcade came. SuperSreakoui is a
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helicopter gunship type clone. Shark in the same class as troger. and
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enemy temtory. you ve just been spotted, good Fuck on you mission. SpKiller -
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game.

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maze game.

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FfXlfi: Games- Cnbbage Master- A great critjbage game and; tutor. Spades
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FD39A& B : Star Trek. The New Generation - This is a. completely different
version of Star Trek ihan that lo-jnd on FD12. This one was created by the
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two disks. Requires 515k

FD44: Game - Mechtigrt is an out of this world roie-playmg adventure com-
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c-l their most valuable possessions, engage in a nortal combat or rwo against
robots and alien lile forms, pick up a rew Amiga 9000. Most of all. don't forget
"o stay alive...

FD49:Chans Cheats - This disk contains an everything you wanted to know
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game, Jymcc a two player mtssile command clone, and Vstank a tank com-
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popular classic arcade came Defender Also contain Air Race a WWI! flying
ace arcade game, and Psycobtast new creation dea game,
FD56: Arcade - Includes SpaceWar, HueyRaid is a well done helicopter
arcade game. PowerPong's a groat expanded pong gam*.
FD57: Arcade Game* Includes 2 iruly commercial quality games.
MegaBall. an Afkanoid-rsh game, learures 5 musical scores, multiple levels
and addicting gamepiay Gravny Attack is a psychadeLic trip through several
different worlds — each d stinctly different.

FD5B: GAMES! - Includes Siemschlag; a greai Tetris clone from Germany
with music SComoat: simulate battle between up to 40 players 5 monsters.
mpenum Romanum: Battle up to 4 players for control of the Mediterranean
m this Risk-esque game,

FD59: Game Potpourri - Xenon ml is an almosi exacl done of 1he commer-
cial game ol tho same name., a greai shootemup Crossword will lake lists of
words 4 automatically generate word-search puzzles for any Epson compat-
Able printer.

FD&0: Games - In Nebula, race over a 3d world to destroy enemy mstalfa-
lions. Interferon; a great Dr. Mana clone. Enigma: is it a gameor a puzzle?
FD61 : Games - Solitaire; great graphics, ofays two versions. Klsde: an inter-
esting piece of eye candy. Extrams Violence; Eyplayer kill or bekilled game.
VATC: A Tetns clane win Artifical ln;eil ; gence / Genesis; create realistic 3d
■ractai worms

Workbench Disks

W84:Tetecornrnumnica1lon - This disk contains several excellent pd com-
munication programs designed lo gel you on line quickly and easily. Access
(1.42) - A very nice ANSI term program. Comm f1 -34) - Laiest version ol
one of |he best publ:c domain communications programs ever made on the
Amiga, Handshake |2.l2a) Handshake is a Full featured VT52. 1 00."tO2'22Q
WB5: Fonls #1- Several fonts (35) for the Amiga, also included are five
^ageStream ionts.and ShowFont - a font display program.
WBG; Fonts *2 - ShowFonl(4.0) This program allows you 10 quickly and
painlessly view all 256 characters in a typical font. Large AmigaDos system
'onts (many up lo S6pts).

WB7: Clip Art This disk is loaded with black and while clip art. Art
^eludes, trees, watches, tools, US and Stale maps, and more.
WB9: Icons Truly a multitude of various lypss and kinds. Also includes
iconMi ester, iconLab. and others great utilities to help generate icons.
WBlO: Virus Killers The larest and best VinjsX[4.0), Kv[2.1). and
ZeroVirusHI

WB11; Business - Cierk(4,oj. finally a lull leaded business accounting PD
program for Ihe small to medium company, inc-ude-s receivables, payables,
end of month and uch more,

WB12: Disk Utilities ■ This great disk is loaded with wonderful utiMeS lor
everything including making disk labels, disk caiatoflmg, disk ppHmltinfl
disk and tile recovery archrvB arti organizing, and all sons ol die ma.nipula
Hon. A must riave 1

WB13: Piimer Drlveia and Generator ■ over 70 differem drivers, and if
these don t do n. with PnDivGen you can make your own.
WB15: Business - This disk comairts a spr&adEheei. a database, a
proiecilims management program and financial analysis (slocks)
WB16: Business - This disk contains an inventory manager, a loan analysis
program, a great calendar scheduler, a roloddi program, and pennywrse a
good 'Cash Book' accounting for noma or oHicq

WB1B: Word Tsui Proeesiora This disk contains the best editors
Includes. ToxiPlus (v2 2e] a full featured word processor. Drne(vl.35) a
gr&at programmers edtrjf with strong macro features. To* ED(v2 8) an
enhanced Emacs type e*i;*or. and a spell checker.
w&22: Fonts «3 • Several more great tonts. These, like Ibe oiner font disks
work great with Ooaint and WYSIWYG wora processors.
WB23: Graphics and Plotting ■ Plot (20b) a trn&e dimensional mathemati-
cal (unction pkjner Can plot, any user defined function. BezSurf2 ■ produce
awesome pictures ol objects one could turn on a lathe. Can also map iff
image files onto any surtace that it can draw Now compatible with most 30
packages, and VSaeen - makes a yirtual scretn anywhere, great lor DTP'
wa 25: Educations I - On this disk aro two programs that can generate maps
at dillering types, World Data Base uses the CIA's data base to generate
defied maps of any entered user global coordinates Also Paradox a great
demonstration ot Albert Einstein General Theory of R&lativity
WB26: Disk Utilities 42 MrBacfcup. KwickBackup ■ two wall done uiiii'ies
io do haiddisk and licppy disk backups. FiteMast - a penary die eci-cr,
Labelprmter - Disk label printer with very powerful features
YVB27: Nagol 26 Patrick Nage! pictures of beautiful women
WB29: Graphics and Sound - This disk has several different Mandelbrot

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type programs for generating siunmng graphics includes. Ma ndel Mountains
a rea'istx terrain generator, Fracgen - generated recursive fractals irom
user input. MandeJbrot and Tmandel ■ two last rnandelbrot generators, also
Mosira - lha best IFF display program to date, will display ALL IFF's indjd-
ing Dynamic HAM, and Sound ■ a groal IFF sound player, will play anythng
'.VB 33: Circuit Board DetJgn - several terrific routines tor the electronic
enthusiast, Including PCBlool a circuit bcaid dt?sjgn loal. LogcLab - circuit
log.c tester, and Mead (i ,26| a we* ctonu new release of Ihis PD CAD pro .
gram, now comes wilh prodrawn common circuit components tor *nsenon

n;o schematics ^^k^k&^m

WS34: UllUlt**- Several well done uliliues. some w"] require mocerato
knowledge ot a CU or Shell tor setup, Ctiatter Box ■ tb'5 one will play any
user defined sound after any event jie.. dish insert, mouse click, csk
removal...), . Artm - The Amiga real time monitor, gwes you lull centre! ci [tie
Amiga OS. very powerful progiam L Helper - netp program to make learning
the CLI easier, and mora!

WB35: 3D Graphics Trvts cMK contains suvura; naaf programr. to use wrtr
your 3d modeifig.'fiiy tracing proo/airs 3dFon«. - Fun veclor tent set for use
witn 3d programs. FonMsher - mftko 3d 'ants Irom any sysleifl font,
Make3DShape' ■ credit- 3d stapes Untn any image. PttrrproiFF ■ create 3d
animations preserves, pallet, and WotkCd - a dftno program pi a iron) end
lor use with DKBRendo'.

WB36: Graphics - On this dish are s^erai programs to create stunn ng
graphical images incHjdmg. M Pairs ■ cwateS swTrtng gatasy images. Roses -
produce an unlimited number ol variations d images that a symmetrically
similar to a rose, SfmGert - display those spectacular images as part of your
workbench screen, ana" RayShado - a very good rayiracing program, create
,-our own boautilul 3d graphic models with this ore 1

W837: Educational Educational games and puntea that cover math,
geography, spoiling, and books. Agus6-15

WB3S: Plotting and Graphics ■ Plotxy is trie most powerful full featured
plotting package Used by many colleges and universities. A welcome addi-
tion io our library! High y recommended. Plans - a incredibly well done
Computer Aided Drafting progtam, very Ml featured Tesseiator - a pro-
gram that helps generates faniasiic looking, recursive M.C. Ecsher type pic-
tures.

WB40: Music ■ 'CD on a disk". &0 minutes ol modern music on this well
presented collection. Requires 2 drives or HO

WB41 : Music MED an incredibly well bono, full featured music editor
Create your own siunmng music drrectly fin your |he Amiga. Similar to
SoundTracker but better, Very powerful easy to use program. Version 3.20.
which is compatable with WS2.0.4.

WB43: Business - This disk contains AnarytiCat ■ probably the most pow-
erful spreadsheet progrsm on the Amiga A lull featured spreadsheet with
many features expected in a commercial package. Requires 1.2 MB of
memory"

WB46: Clip Art - HlgbRes clip art with the following monfs ■ embellish
nents (borders, dodads ....), people, and transportation.
WB<J7: Clip Art ■ HignRus clip an wilh the following motifs - hair, drafling.
summer, animals and macfood.

WB40i Clip Art ■ HighRes dip an wilh the following mofifs - Holidays,
nusic. medical, and m<sc.

WB49ABC:Anlmallon Sampler - On this three disk samprer set (counts as
two dtshs) are some of tfe best animations that have been created over the
last ih/ee years. Several examples ol "Movie" type animations some with
spectacular raylraced reality (coolroby, watch, spgot and egg). Also several
European style or Demo" animation with incredible graphics and outstand-
ing electronic music {nViight. coporsmo, doc. dpE2010. impact, and logode
mo). These Iruly show olf tho crealivo odgo at an Amiga 1
V/B50; Animation - Seven of the best european style animations or
'Demos", including - scientific 451. subway {a US entrant also our
favorite), 5unndo. thrsldeno. tnlght. waves, and woow,
WB53; Graphics ■ Hay facing programs genera:o absolutely stunning real-
istic looking planes, rockets, buildings.... and surreal Images often consisting
cl highly polished spheres and ob|acls. C-Light is the most powerful EASY-
TO-USE ol It's kind wo have seen to date. This is easily better, and more
lull featured, than similar commercial programs costing m the hundreds of
dollars. Also, sMovso ■ a lufl toaiurud uideo text tiller similar to ProVidoo,
Broadcast Tiller. Groat video scrolling, wipes, special ettocts. and more ...
WBS4: Prinling - This disk contains several routinos to help wilh the chore
ol printing Includes Gothc - Finally a Banner printer for (he PDI PiimSludro
■a well implemented atl-pjrpose pimtcr-ulihty wilh a very comfortable graph-
ic interface and many advanced features. Llla - wilh ease, print ASCII liles to
a PostScript printer, and many more.

W055: Application - XCopylll - a Iu3l featured disk copier, make backups
of copy protected disks. RoadRoute ■ fjnd the quickest roule from one city to
another, highway description included. Diary - a diary program like "Dougy

Howard M D". Cal - a calendar program. Magman • a database tailored to
maintain records on articles and publications.

WB57- Animation - This disk nas several "Demo" style animations.
Including. Slitter. Lolly. Sung, vertigo, vortex, and ienmorph.
west; Intermediate Utilities - includes programs to help to drasticaly
decrease ticket in interface and hi-res modes (aniirisck). an Atari-st emula-
tor, an eprom programmer, turn your amiga into an eight channel digital
data analyzer o- ociHoscope. and more.

WB6?: Midi Utilities ■ Several useful midi utilities including, programs to
transfer to and from several music progtams to midi. a mxfj sysex handler, a
m-c- recorder vsnn timebase. display mdi info, file sequeftce playor. and a
few scores

WBS3: Dish Utilities #3 - Several highly recommended programs to ad m
removing duplicate tiles from your hard drive, performing hie backups,
Binary editing, 'ast formatting, file recovery, disk track recovery, and forced
DISK VALIDATION of corrupt d&ks

WB66: Icons *2- LCI's cf neat icons, Aiso. several wonderful programs that
to let you create youf own icons, modify and manipulate icens and info
structures.

WB6S:Music Utilities - several good Lt/lities for the Amiga music enthusi-
ast Includes, Noisetracker - a great music creation program, Son-»2MOD -
converts sonix » .mod tiles, which then can be used by no$atra;fceT, sqund-
traker. and MED, SoeakerSim - a speaker design tool dome-. Wonderspund
is an additive harmonic instrument design tool with a separate envelope
despgn window and 16 lelahve harmonic strengin and pnase angle controls
WB6&: Music - This disk has over 90 minutes of classical and modern elec-
tronic mus'C tor you Amiga-

W&70; Desk Top Pub ■ Atcp • tracer Macintosh screen i cn;s. Mac cr IBW
jornat .AFW metric Mes. to Amiga scieen fonts and PPage .metric files.
With th * program, open ihe door to the libraries of Adobe and PostScript
fonts! Calendar ■ month templates in PageStream form Post - a full fea-
tured postscript tile display and print utility.

WB75: Music - over 100 instruments files ( inst) and samp'e sound tiles
( ss) tor your music programs.

WB76; Applications ■ Th:s d<Sk COntailS Stichery ■ a; often requested kn;t-
ling design program, Lotto ■ a rather compJete lattery IracKrng ard prectict<on
utility, SSS - ttis screen capture program can graft almost any screen
including games Today - a personal calender, Tarot - fortune te ; ler. and
Grammar ■ grammar checker

WB79: Home 4 Business Accounting - Includes Ckbacci - me most com-
plete checkbook accounting program going. LCDCalc ■ this well done calcu-
lator has a very large display and operates from the keyboard or mouse,
Mileage masto- - monitor your automobile mileage with this mileage log.
Grammar ■ a grammar checker, and IfVortdtime - find out what lime it is in up
tg 50 global cities

WB@1; Great Applications ■ DataEasy a very easy to use. database pro-
gram. Don't let the ease of use tool you, this is a very full featured database
program including, tu±| printer coi:foI "or address labels and mail merge
applications. Also includes. TypaTut a pood typing tutor. HLC a full featured
label pnn:er. 6a^rer. a multifont banner maker, and Budget a home
accounting m a pfogram, Mphfy recommended.

WBS2 : Animations Four full length, well done "movte' style awiwmnd
Including. Coyote, Juggjertl. Ghos:Pool S Mechanb 2dsks counts as l
WBS3: Computer Art this disk has some ot tho best An^ga generated
computer nn tnat we nave, coiected m mo past 5 years.

WB85: Graphics ■ Contains Several programs IdV mampulglmg 2-1 Brt color

images [ham-e] ana a rather mce in image prc-cessing package.
W&66: Centurlan Press - An electrode n&wspaper - requires AmgaVISJon.
WBS3ABC: Thrf Complete Sfble - A tnrce disk seL wfth the ent re text ol
Hw NewTestanen', and OW Testameni-King James version. A great utifily,
Three c«k set counts as thfae.

WB90: Rippers, Stripper* and Beats For the Amiga music enthusiast.
tn» dUk contans many programs Oes'gned strip music from your favorite
games and programs Also contains Drums, a very nice drum machine,
Tins disk rocfures some knowledge ol the CLI.

WB93: Workbench Extras $2 Th s disk contains ihe mtililieS that
Commodore shouki have shipped with the Amiga: VirusX-4.0. Snap, Fix Disk
(recover corrupt 1 deleted files). Disk Optimizer [floppy & hard). Machlll
(screen blanker, hotkey, mouse aceeL. macru, clock utility), GCWJF (a gunj-
busterjand PrintStudio.

WB95: Checkbook Accountant 2.1 - This is definitely commercial grade:
we've seen many ctiec^book programs and this is absolutely tne best. FuB
budgeting, transaction recording and report generation
WB96; Dupera - Contains Xcopyin £ Nib which wt< backup copy -protected
programs. FrecCopy removes copy pratectlctfi from several programs, and
SuperDuper will cr^n-.-oui fast AmigaDOS copies.

V/B9B: Business includes BBasell a nice powerfu: database Bi*Catc— a
personal or mortgage loan calculator wi!h anertizatran cgpabilit-es. Loop— 3
f owenart maker. Formmaker - design pro^esshinal forms on you' Epson LO-
25C0 cornpatibte primef.

WB99: Lifestyles - Includes AGene— famify tree program that tracks up to
600 peopte-'marrtagGseic. Landscape is a CAD program to create
gardens/lanctscapes. Loom: simulates, an a harness :oom; experiment with
pattern design in an instant feedback environment.

WB10I: Cbemesthetics 5 a program th.v rJispfaysmolecuk,"Sas a cakflte
model This kino of display contains a certain esthetic attitude, even
extremely poisonuus molecules like nicotine and diomno look quite mce,
WB102: Telecommunications - Contains the programs NCornm 2.0 and
VT100-29B. ZfcWdem protocols. XPR orotocoJ support, full VTIOO emula-
tion. NComm's schpl language is so powerfLjl it comes with a script Me that
creates a tuil-feafured BBS system.

WB103: Music - Contains !2 'groat' Soundtracker,fy*ED music
MOOules. complete with programmabe/shufflo pla/er...8 bit audio never
sounded so hot 1 Two disk sot counts as two-

WB104; GtabBng Q&A Trivia [requires AmigaVisionJ is a mvia game for
1/2 players. ..add your own questions to customize the diffcutty lavell
Sysmfo is great tor lellmg you how fast slow your computer Is, what boards
aro installed, ch pseis. etc. Am-Gazer will piol stars in the heaven from any

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iThes* powerlul utilities rake full edvaoUge of iho many new capabilitJejl
[that arc avdilablr in Workbench XO.

1 Jotti xManager - 3 ■■■■ to jdd programs to your TOOL mcnu,j
[create 3 c piled ion of icons on the wmtibcnirfr to ea_sily launch frequenllj]
fu-rftt progran«i-.anJ much more! A tru* muut have utiliiy!H-*itfof curl
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■ Screen Blankcrs - jjj frjctali and spliners and smarming bees! No morei
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I Requester Knhanecrs - no mire ^Ule "Please iTLseTf Vofumt~ requesters— |
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JCPUBUI - speeds up wxi displays for o*ncr» of oSOit^ CPl -.]
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WB105: Home Manager - This "5 a great all-in-one address boottwitrt gni
autodiaier notepad to do list 1 appointment sohecSuiermome mueniory
database and phono number dealer.

WB107A&B: Educational - Srawnarj i$ a p-ogram that generates repre-
sentations such as hemispherical views, and orbital views of tt»e Earth's sur-
face, complete wth national boundaries. Screens can be pnnied or saved
to distt as standard IFF hies. Full user-configurabieonime he^o faciiity.
6802Q* VE?rsio-i mcludeo. 2 c .sk set, counts as 1 '

WB109: OctaMED This wea&throtjgh program doubles your Amiga's
sound capabil ties Irom 4 charW& io an ear-popp;^ S channeisf All tne
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0D4S: ARUXX Programs - This oisk contains several usetjt are** pio-
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00-47 : Pa-Ksl ■ This d'S* corftains everytirg needed :o orogrtm in Pascal.
Includes, AfSflk 1 1 2J 6a00Oa3sem&ier, BSnk rinUng software and PCQ (1.0}
a modest Pascal sub set compileF.

DD49: C Compiler conlains ic(1-01) futiy K&R, zccti.0) front end,
A5Qk(-.2i assemble/, B^rJtfinter.

DD50: AReix #2 - a musl ha.vB set ot luTnriaSs on ARexx and several useful
exampfes and utilities for ARe*x development

DDSl : Circuit Analysis - Aspice {2.3) A full featured program for electric
circuit analysis

DD5?: Scientific ■ includes Elements - an incredibly well done penodic
table program witri source. Scientific plotting ■ over 600k ol Lattice C source
routines that can be ind uded in your own programs.
DD54: Compression ■ This d.sk is leaded Witn all of ne best file compres-
sion programs and aids tar the Amiga Many of the programs can be used
by the new user. Includes Arc Lharc. Urwarp. Pkax. PowerPacker a must
have by all. Zip. Warp and Zoo. A "so IFFcrunch an excellent compression
forlFFHes. ^P

DD55: AflP - On th-S disk you will lind the complete ArpReig fj release
including me fu l l u&er dacs tr-e fun Developers gude ARP is Ihe official
AmigaDOS Resource project [ARP> rertase 1 3 ARP makes many
Improvement to AmtajaDOS and mates your CLI more powerful.
DE)57; Advanced Uiiitties - Msh - like Cross-dos. copies Mes to and from
MS-COS. Pa' NTSC converl any pal program io fJTSC and vice vetsa,
Also several boasts tor your startup-sequence, plus 25 more programs.
D062: Baste and Xscfieme - Cursor - a full featured Amiga Basic compiler.
soasic and flex! - several wonderful routines to help m basic prc-gramers,
ardXscrteme-an interpreted object orientadfangusge
0066: Programming TooTBox - Msriy progfams to rielo in your dewelop-
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DD69:Advanced Utilities ScrNet and ParNet ■ Connect two Amiga's and
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Selector - put menus on your workbench screen, and mpre-
DD71A&B:C Compiler - Tnis disk contains DICE, Matthew Dillon's full fea-
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DD77; Korlran ■ Contains a lull featured Fortran77 development system.
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DD79abcd; Amiga "C" Tutorial ■ This is the most comprehensive C lan-
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Regarding the monitor article "Screen
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Texture in Context

For the most part, I have found Amiga-
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In the first place, the images are not a
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A500 Power Discovery

I just made a momentous discovery.
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drive. What a difference that makes on
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Commodore will never succeed in
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